One of life’s great pleasures is to raise the already dangerously high blood pressure of The Stranger’s “Public Editor,â€� that decrepit curmudgeon known as A. Birch Steen. And one of the most effective ways of doing that is to quote deceased philosophers. So here’s a pithy comment from English thinker Bertrand Russell, who lived to be 97. “I owe my longevity to intellectual stimulation—and fornication.â€� Sadly, these two pleasures haven’t been part of Mr. Steen’s life since the Eisenhower administration.