Now, If Only Incivility Could Have Died With Him....

By Baxter

Back in 1996, after William Safire called Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar" in print, we cats would clip the odious man's "On Language" columns from The New York Times and mail them back to The Gray Lady.

"We have no need of this," our enclosed note would invariably say.

It was a small, futile way to express our outrage, but in those days before the Internet it was the only thing we could think of to do. Needless to say, The Times never acknowledged our protest, although Mrs. Clinton responded to the former Nixon speechwriter's attack in her usual classy way.

Well, we cats can put away our scissors. William Safire won't be writing any more columns.