But First, this important massage from the Swedish Prime Minister: Naked Gun opened Friday. I literally laughed at every scene. Please go see it.

More writing making you conscious of my writing about the writing of this column.

When the Internet began, I was so excited. Free of the constraints of paper, Internet articles could be as long or short (almost never short) as they needed to be. As the old saying goes, an article should be like a man’s shorts: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

That length appears to be 750 words, the length of a N.Y. Times op-ed article. That is the aspirational length, not the prescriptive length of this column each week. It restrains my darker instincts. Just like cheap Hollywood movies; you have to be more creative when you are constrained.