Editorials by Andrew Malcolm

It certainly isn’t big news, the way news is usually measured.

As 10,000 of the nation’s librarians assembled in Philadelphia this weekend for the American Library Assn.’

It’s not a big story, as combat tales go.

In desperate need of new midway freak shows to draw American TV viewers to mock and laugh at others, CBS is designing a reality series to plunk down some rural Americans in a fancy urban wasteland and see how they stumble.

OK, mes amis, this is guerre.

OK, pick up your wife, hold her above your head with one arm and prance lightly about the room like a proud stallion, only smiling.

Throughout history, even in the caves of Neanderthals, legend says children have maintained they are so full it would be impossible to swallow one more bite of mastodon spleen or even a single Green Giant pea.

Speaking of Thanksgiving, familiar customs have become a vital if invisible part of modern life.

Bad news on the afterlife front.

True, it’s been just three decades -- barely sufficient for Americans to experience seven different presidents and for the Earth to whirl 30 times around the sun at 18 miles per second -- since the arrival of wacko airplane hijackers caused airports to scrutinize purses, pockets and packages of everyone boarding a commercial plane.