It’s amazingly like collecting pens, collecting blog hosts. One hopes that both acts will nudge the words awake, but instead they join the words in lollygagging about and staring at the sights.

The Picture Company must make tons of money out of parents who are absolutely convinced their child is the most good-looking creature to ever crawl on God’s earth. They have studios, backdrops, propsranging from angel wings to fruit salad headdresses, and model-thin photographers and front-desk people who all themselves poster children for bright-and-perky, and if …