Too bad we have Gail Collins

  I just wanted to say,

  before it becomes im-

  polite ever to extract

  humor again, from for-

  getting what one had

  been going to say, I

  still enjoy the mind-

  sweeping calamity of

  comic writing. Period.

  Zip excuses. Gail Col-

  lins, a publishing

  phenomenon using the

  suspiciously allit-

  erative name of a

  possibly real person,

  can sometimes make

  one weep in gales of

  laughter's misadven-

  ture, forgetfulness.

  I do sense, we're ap-

  proaching the end of

  permission for such

  interferences, so for

  now I hope collisions 

  of drone pizzas con-

  tinue to splat us o-

  verhead, as quoting

  Republicans verbatim

  sprinkles tears of

  levity, our way. 

Gail Collins
The Days of Wine
  and Droning
The New York Times©
29 January 2015