AFTER SOME TIME OF suffering through the anxious nausea alone, I may now tell you:
I WILL BE SPEAKING at the upcoming Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner.
AS OF THIS WRITING, I am scheduled to speak after the President of the United States (Barack Obama)
WHICH MAKES SENSE, as I am the most dynamic public speaker of our times.
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SERVING FOR DINNER, but I will tell you.
THAT IS ALL.
1781, BATH, ENGLAND: German-born astronomer William Herschel becomes the first modern scientist to discover a new planet within our solar system. He is not taken seriously at first. After all, the three “new planets” he had previously “discovered” turned out to be the sun, a fly on the lens of his telescope, and Earth, respectively. But this time he got it right: Uranus is a planet, and since our last writing, it has been admitted to THE CLUB OF PLANETS. (a)
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(a). Please see page 147 of The Areas of My Expertise under the heading “The Club of Debated Planets.”
