|
|
Article: Okay, People, Lighten Up ...
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 16, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightThis material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information)
|
Special Announcement: Clinton is not a chemist.
A number of people called us and also called the White House to
ask if it was true that Bill Clinton won the Nobel Prize for
chemistry, as we asserted in a recent column on FDR.
This goes to show that we live in a world so preposterous it is
impossible to make a comment with enough preposterousness to be
distinguishable from the normal background madness. Rest assured
that Clinton is a lawyer. To our knowledge he couldn't tell the
periodic table from a floor plan of the West Wing.
Then again, if Yasser Arafat can win the Nobel Peace Prize,
anything's possible.
Why are there no giant insects?
Whenever you're feeling kind of mopey, ...