He Said She Said They Said. I Don't Recall if I Said.

If I were currently wearing my scholar hat and my special scholar jock strap and carrying my bag of magic scholar beans, I would spend some time over the next week raking through what the "prestige" newspaper columnists write tomorrow, which is 9/11, about, you guessed it, 9/11

Two possible responses: write about it or don't.

Two possible responses from the second category: Don't write about it but point out that you are not writing about it, or just don't.

Two possible response from the second category of the second category. In a day or two respond to letters and emails asking why you didn't write about it and also why you failed to note that you weren't writing about it -- are you stupid or what? -- or don't respond to those letters and emails asking the aforesaid question.

In other words, in this age of interaction with and response to readers -- in this age of feedback, of two-way communication -- refrain from taking your readers in your powerful arms and rocking them to sleep by answering their plaintive questions.

I suppose I could break the second category of the second category of the second category down into yet two more categories, but as I said:

No special jock strap. No magic beans.