The EXIT Polls Suggest That After A Relatively Disappointing FIRST Term, Obama Managed To Reassemble Almost All Of His 2008 ELECTORATE.

The Downside To Becoming A Doctor, I Think, Is It's A Very Long PROCESS; Four YEARS Of MEDICAL School, THREE Years Of Internship, Two Years Of Residency, Umpteen Years Of Specialization, And Then Finally You Get To Be What You Have Trained Almost All Your Life For.

Kansas City, I Would SAY, Did More For Jazz Music, BLACK Music, Than Any Other Influence At All. ALMOST All Their Joints That They Had There, They Used Black Bands. Most Musicians Who Amounted To ANYTHING, They Would Flock To Kansas City Because That's The Place Where Jobs Were PLENTIFUL.

The Market Is Incredibly Inefficient And Capable On Rare Occasions Of Being Utterly Dysfunctional. And People Have A Really Hard Time Getting Their Brain AROUND That FACT. They Want To Believe That It's Approximately EFFICIENT Almost All The Time, And It Simply Isn't True.

Mollie HUNTER Was Both A Great Friend And A Very Fine Writer For Children. She Was Fascinated By Scotland's History And Its FOLKLORE - Almost All Her NOVELS Reflect Her TREMENDOUS KNOWLEDGE Of Both.

I've Had Nine Of My BOOKS Adapted To Film, And Almost All Were Enjoyable. I've Been Very Lucky With HOLLYWOOD, And Look Forward To More Movies Being Adapted. But I Don't Get Involved In That PROCESS. I Know Nothing About Making Movies And I Stay AWAY From It And HOPE For The Best.

I'm Not SAYING Obama Is RIGHT On Everything. Of Course Not. He MAY Be Wrong On A NUMBER Of Things. But What I Do Know Is That He Behaves Like A Very, Very Sane Man Almost All The Time.

I Don't FEEL Confident At All In My Beliefs About GOD. That's Definitely Scary. But I Don't Believe ANYMORE That God Hates ALMOST All Of Mankind. I Don't Think That, If You Do Everything Else In Your Life Right And You Happen To Be Gay, You're Automatically Going To Hell. I Don't Believe Anymore That WBC Has A MONOPOLY On Truth.