31.   A while back, I wrote a column about my brilliant defense of Helen Adams in a mock trial staged in our eighth-grade civics class.

32.   About a dozen Democrats are working the Sunday news-show circuit or writing newspaper columns.

33.   After about six months, Murray told me I ought to write two columns a week.

34.   After all, well before computers were invented, city lights shone, planes flew, companies wrote orders and newspaper columns got written.

35.   All you have to do is write the column.

36.   Alex Beam writes opinion columns for The Boston Globe.

37.   Alma Womack writes a column for her Jonesville parish newspaper.

38.   Brown told me I should write two columns a week about Oakland.

39.   Brazil gets off on a bad foot when he writes a newspaper column about the escalating problem of juvenile gangs.

40.   But I still write one column a week.