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Then along came Larry King. King, in USA Today, reinvented the concept of the column, making it the easiest job in the world. Using the classic three-dot format and replacing information with random opinions, he filled columns with sentences like these: "Does anybody know how to bake strawberry longcake?...I hate digital clocks...If George Shearing is playing piano, I'm listening to the piano...Whoever invented the paper clip is a genius...Someday they'll send pizza pies to your house like faxes, and boy will that make money." By looking inside instead of outside, King effectively...
...company called CarSharing Portland first introduced America to the shared-car concept. Last month it was bought by Seattle-based Flexcar, which wants to open in 30 cities over the next five years...
...hard to write a column. Guys like Mike Royko used to have to get up from their desks, get into a car and ask people questions in neighborhoods that were sometimes dicey. Neighborhoods, I'm told, that had no decent restaurants for expense lunches. Back then, when the concept of news was limited to what happens to other people, editors wouldn't even consider something as monumental as a columnist's own mother's wedding to be newsworthy...
Without King, I wouldn't be able to write this column, or at least not in a way that takes only 20 minutes a week. I took King's concept of typing up every minuscule thought that crosses my head and expanded it. Instead of just wasting the thought in one sentence, as he does, I stretch each passing fancy into an entire article: I hate dogs...I never get Daylight Savings Time right...The Post Office is one well-run organization...Happy birthday, Robert Goulet...Boy, do I love porn stars...
Growing up in America, I was made hyperaware of racism. And then going to South Africa, the concept was punctuated at a pretty young age, 13 or 14. I became more and more horrified, first at the absurdity of it but then with the horror that comes of it: the power that's put into the wrong people's hands. Seeing people thrown off trains. Watching people being arrested, or people being molested by the authorities, or friends being mistreated...