Schedule Change

December 6, 2001March 25, 2012

The column that would ordinarily run today will run tomorrow. Tomorrow’s column ran yesterday. Welcome to the International Date Line. (Because of which, in case you were wondering — and I am indebted to Lewis F. Davis for knowing — the Northernmost, Easternmost and Westernmost of the United States are: Alaska, Alaska, and Alaska. The Southernmost is Hawaii.)

Quote of the Day

"Guys, just remember: if you get real lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you go out and buy a lot of stuff, it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It has a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling and I'll tell you why: something broke that morning. The generator's out, the microwave oven doesn't work, the cook's gay. Things just don't mean happiness."

Ross Perot to Harvard B-School students, quoted in Forbes