So what if I'm an old man?

I like to read the obituaries. I get laughed at for this, or called morbid, but you know what? You learn some interesting stories from the obituaries. For example, this one: "When [Eugene] McCarthy ran for president as an Independent in 1976, he asked Mr. Hansborough [a Washington Barber] to be on the D.C. ballot. ''He worked on Capitol Hill; he was a real Democrat and a friend of mine," McCarthy said. ''There must have been something funny in the law that you needed a vice president to be on the ballot."" Read the whole thing. There are all sorts of interesting people in the world who you never hear about. If I've got a chance to learn about them, I'm going to. I don't think that's so morbid.