The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.

We’re all controlled neurotics.

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A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.

If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.