Russell BakerA collection of 30 posts

Women

Americans like fat books and thin women.

War

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around w...

Society

Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires th...

Smile

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good like to smile ...

Science

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories t...

Politics

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take...

Poetry

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through ...

Poetry

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Poetry

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like c...

Parenting

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.