William Safire, "a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev 'kitchen debate' in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon's visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal, which drove the president from office," died yesterday at the age of 79. I'm having a hard time coming up with anything nice to say about him, so I will just mention that I once heard him make a joke about how the first Monday in October (the beginning of the annual Supreme Court term) was conservatives' real Daylight Savings Time, [...]