God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (4 page)

for me, but for the

National Public Radio Station WNYC in downtown Manhattan. WNYC enhances the informed wit and
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wisdom of its community and mine. It does what no commercial radio or TV station can afford to do any more. WNYC satisfies the people's right to contrasted with, as abject slaves of high-roller publicists and advertisers, keeping the public vacantly diverted and entertained.

Whereas formal religions surely comfort many members of the WNYC staff, that staff's collective effect on its community is

ideal so

Earthbound and unmajestic that I never capitalize it. As I have used it here, "humanist" is nothing more

'

supernatural than a handy synonym for "good citizenship and common decency." I wish one and all long and happy

no matter what

may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen!

Don't smoke cigarettes.

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Cigars, however, are good for

There is even a

magazine celebrating their

with male role

models,

actors, rich guys with trophy

on its covers. Why not the surgeon general? Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the

Why not eat one tonight at bedtime? Firearms are also good for you. Ask Charlton Heston, who once played Moses. Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too. Ask your senator or senatrix or congressperson if guns, like cigars, aren't good for you. My late Uncle Alex

my father's kid brother,

a Harvard-educated life insurance agent in Indianapolis who was well read and wise, was a humanist like all the rest of the family. What Uncle Alex found particularly
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