A reader is concerned:

I do nout understand what Mr. Goldberg is trying to say.
It appears that he is agreeing with the muddle-headed Alice Walker, whose inane observations regarding the USSR put her into the same camp in a sense as those that support Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer.
Perhaps Mr. Goldberg should explain what he was trying to say?

Me: No, I don’t actually agree with Alice Walker. My joke was simply pointing to the fact that A) it would be much cheaper to fight wars with pillows stuffed with food and music (though canned soup and CD boxes would hurt like the dickens) and B) if in fact wars could be fought with pillow fights it would be better (assuming that the United States of America enjoyed overwhelming pillow-superiority, I’ll be damned if I’m going to relinquish, say, California simply because the ChiComs have superior numbers of pillow-fighters!). I hope my sarcasm is more clear now.