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Back in the old days, before the publication of Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care and the advent of enlightened parenthood, suburban kids who misbehaved got spankings. Country kids who acted up went to the woodshed for a whuppin’. This … Read More »

You’ve got to wonder about some lawyers. Are they suicidal, or just IQ challenged? Imagine you’re an attorney trying a cute ploy. A judge tells you that a particular tactic is unacceptable and you can’t do it. How do you … Read More »

“Six-term incumbent Darrell McGraw”? We’ll never have to write those woeful words, and you’ll never have to read them. Which is a good thing, because those words would have stuck in our craw. We never liked the phrase “five-term incumbent … Read More »

In the opening scene of the classic caper comedy It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a motorist speeding down the highway goes off a cliff and crashes. Several other cars pull over and some of the occupants make their … Read More »