“Do not gloat” was among my mother’s constant reminders. Try as I might to follow my mother’s sage advice, I find there are occasions when I simply cannot help it. Here is one of them. In early 1995, ...

The outburst of Barney-hating by computer addicts on the Internet appears to be a far more serious matter than I had thought. It was a mistake to assume that the campaign to destroy Barney the ...