I got a bit of crumpled up Denver Post as packaging for one of the many packages I received last week. An article in the crumpled bit -- which is now another crumpled bit in my garbage can -- was about Alexander McCall Smith.

Have any of you, dear readers, read any of his works? All that bioethics work prejudices me against him, but he m-i-g-h-t come down on the r-i-g-h-t side of the fence for that, so who knows? And his writing m-a-y be good despite his political views. So?