Have a Baby, My Cigar Just Had a Wife In its issue for June 26, 2026, The Times Literary Supplement (London and, once a year or so, q.v., Marquette), leads its Letters page with the thirteenth installment of " DSL. in the TLS" (1998- ; paywall-free this time 'cos, as the kids at YouTube say, "First!" ), a series as irregular as its author and that of this email, as the cast of characters in my, I mean his, archive therein might indicate: Robert Alter, John Birch, John Cleese, Robert Crumb, Donald Duck, Umberto Eco, George Eliot, Encounter magazine, G-d, The Brothers Grimm, Henry Hazlitt, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Idle, Janis Joplin, Stanley Kubrick, John Lukacs, marmalade, Paul McCartney, H.L. Mencken, Ludwig von Mises, Eadweard Muybridge, the nanny state, Robert Nisbet, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Salman Rushdie, Friedrich Schiller, George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa - and J...