World's Thinnest Fat Man

An Excerpt:

Some decades back, a Quaker named Richard Millhouse Nixon

wrote a book entitled Six Crises. An opposition psychiatrist was

quick to pick up on this title and note that President Nixon saw his

life in typically manic-depressive fashion. Psychiatry and politics and

religion aside, I suspect many of us perceive our lives just as that past-

President did: if not in crises, at least in watersheds where we choose

one muddy river path over another; then fall onto or avoid a sunning

cottonmout...