Has Anyone.......
received the current issue of First Things? When magazines disappear, I have visions of either the postman or one of my older girls camped out somewhere paging through my New Yorker or Vanity Fair. Especially the new Vanity Fair with their new all time low: Young Scandinavians in their Skivvies for No Particular Reason: Our First Underwear Portfolio Of course, the Swedes in their undies are comic relief after reading the mental meanderings of the confused Christopher Hitchens on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I hear the apprehension of a man who is feeling the pricking of his conscience and is trying to talk himself out of it. It’s really rather sad - though I had sort of written him off long ago. Any writer who has to criticize Mother Teresa for her looks is drifting in his own peculiar world.

So, anyway, where is our First Things?........Come to think of it, we haven’t received the December issue. Are the post office gnomes out to get us?