How’s the email running? asks a friend.

I wish I could say, but I honestly can’t, because the sample is too small to have much significance. I got F–A–R more email, at an equivalent point in the blogging cycle, from my Jennifer Aniston comments last week than I’ve got from these exchanges — “full and frank” exchanges, as they say in diplomatic circles — about Big Thinkers & Big Ideas.

George Will commented somewhere that he had written three (I think it

was) books about politics and one about baseball, and his royalties showed him where America’s heart lay. Same here, I guess. Between defenders of Jen and defenders of Gert, I’m afraid it’s not even close.