ANN ALTHOUSE has some helpful subject-line advice. If you send me an email with the subject-line “hello,” it’s likely to be unread.

On the other hand, a reader emailed me recently to report that a piece of Cialis-spam bore the subject-line “Magnificient Chomsky!” I’d probably have opened that one, only to be disappointed. I kind of like that usage, though, and I can’t help but note that if you apply it here it explains a lot. Magnificent Chomsky, indeed. . .

Forget Viagra or Cialis. Like most dads, what I need is a pill that, when you take it, causes a babysitter to appear.