Andy,

You are so right about Bob Bork being among the best people America has produced. I say this despite the fact that he is a martini snob. He doesn’t object, in principle, to the vodka/vermouth mixture, but to that drink’s effrontery in traveling under the name “martini.” God knows what he makes of today’s story in the food section of the Washington Post. He keeps threatening to write a book about the proper martini but, really, can’t we all just get along? Let’s agree that the vodka gimlet is the best aperitif and leave it at that.