We’d like to interrupt the hoopla of Colon Cancer Awareness Month — yes, hoopla, as in the giant, walk-through colon that’s now touring Canada, folksinger Peter Yarrow’s new colon song and CBS anchorman Harry Smith’s recent live-TV colonoscopy — with a personal question: How’s your colon?

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