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Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by New York
Times columnist David Brooks, wandered out of the back door of
the Young Fogies Club when nobody was watching. He looked up the
alleyway in one direction, and then in the other, and he walked
north toward Eighth Avenue in the low morning sunlight.  Moral
Hazard liked to get out of a morning, before things really got
jumping in the Young Fogies Club. He liked the idea of being
anonymous in the wider world that so many of the Young Fogies
talked about, but never visited, because some of them had vast
spaces for entertainment that needed filling. Moral Hazard found
talk of filling those vast spaces for entertainment unspeakably
boring, especially when it involved whatever obscure sociologist
Master had decided that week had changed the way we look at the
lesser orders, who eat cheese and lay about on the sofa, fucking
without his