To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Our concern is making ourselves a better team. We've had some cracks in the wall, and we want to eliminate those cracks.

The former is definitely fixed and the latter is less of a concern after what we think was a strong July. We think the stock could quickly get back to $70 [up 27 percent from here] if GTW can just make its third-quarter revenue number ... we're maintaining estimates and raising our target price to $80 from $75.