“We live in a curious age of relettering (‘Hi! I’m Cyndee!’), reversals (Red Sox = world champions), and rejiggering. Paid flacks are the new journalists, fiction is the new truth, war is the new peace. The New York Times announced this week that Kiev is the new Prague. Does that mean we have to start drinking Ukrainian beer? I hope not. Osama bin Laden has famously declared that America is the new Rome… Perhaps you are familiar with the ladies’ apparel phenomenon known as vanity sizing. Here is all you need to know: Size 6 is the new 8.” And of course, absolutely everything is the new black. Whatever happened to the world just being itself?