<html><body><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" class="2"><div><br></div><div> I learned to read using MAD magazine. My personal and cultural identity are closely wrapped up with that magazine.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> <!--StartFragment--><a href="https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-cease-publication/" data-mce-href="https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-cease-publication/">https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-cease-publication/</a><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> MAD magazine may stop publishing, but MAD itself is eternal. It is the wind blowing thru the trees, it is the</div><div>whoopee cushion on your co-workers chair, it is the prank pulled off with great flair.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> We are a better nation -- a better world -- because of MAD magazine. MAD took an amorphous blob</div><div>of a country and made it into a less amorphous blob of a country. It was the precursor of all progenitors.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> <!--StartFragment--><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine)</a><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> phil</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div>--<br>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div></body></html>