Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
-- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), 2 March 1904 - 24 Sept 1991.
For all the little children who learned to read "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish."
And all the mothers and fathers who read "Hop on pop!" hundreds of times, and knew every word by heart.
And all the babysitters who knew that The Cat in the Hat, whether book or video, could always bring a laugh from a child whose parents left home without them.
And for Calvin Trillin, whose lines about Phil Gramm may have contributed to sinking his presidential ambitions even though he acquired more campaign money than Croesus:
"They do not like you, Gramm-I-am!"
Remembering Dr. Seuss on his birthday: you really were You-er than YOU!