... that a university professor, after I had tried to be funny in an essay and failed, in his opinion, suggested that trying to write with humor is a great deal more difficult than other types of writing.
So, I should not have been shocked to find I had missed again in a recent column. When Caroline Kennedy apparently was seeking appointment to a senate seat, and came off in TV interviews as very dour, I suggested that the song "Sweet Caroline" probably was not written with her in mind.