Our title comes from a teaser on the ABC Family Channel, advertising a coming sitcom filled with “Witty banter”. That’s our aim, that’s our new motto [except in election campaigns]. Before proceeding to some of the moral crises facing us all, we have to thank the many Attentive Readers who responded to last week’s SocSec [OO # 582], mostly with applause, but also noting the strange assertion that the [imaginary] Social Security Trust Fund would run out in “1980 or so.” This is the fault of the Proofreading Staff, not the R.I.G., and we apologize deeply – the intended date was the year 2080. We are not usually a century off (though our ideas may be). That confessed, we note that in The New Yorker of 24 January, the expiration date on the thoroughly phony fund is given as only 2052 (Congressional Budget Office), and we have seen later dates elsewhere, also. The same article says more cash will be coming in than out until 2028. So, no instant crisis. Now, on to the Witty B.

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