I Must Confess

First lesson: You must read the Huffington Post at least daily. Preferably, for your own sense of truthiness and stableness, several times a day. Re the Mastergate/Norman Lear/Larry Gelbart mix and mash, I'd have cleared this up for so many of you days ago had I been taking my own advice. But now that I finally happened on the scene, let me confess: I was indeed prescient many years before Mastergate when I saw the film, Tootsie, and the TV show, Mash, and thought to myself of Gelbart, "One day that man will be writing comedy. And with a social conscience, too." So while, dear Huffpost readers, Mastergate is solely a product of Gelbart's genius, boy oh boy am I proud of my prescience!