March 29, 2004

Alliteration

Do you suffer from alliterative affliction? It begins as infant inclination and progresses into a childhood compulsion. It persists through stages of adolescent angst and adult anxiety. It grows from fortyish foolishness into a mature mania. Now a senior sarcoma, it will, no doubt, culminate in a geriatric goiter. We were almost cured of this malady in 1970 by then Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (driven from office on account of other crimes) who once referred to the Press as, "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism." That was too contrived, even for William.

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