So, I'm quietly reading the paper, and the phone rings.
"Hello."
It's her.
"You owe me an apology," she says right off. "I always wanted to challenge you, but you always throw these statistics out at me, and I never know how to answer them. But you ought to be a man about it and just admit that you were wrong."
"Yes, Dear."
Behind every drug-induced tragedy, there is someone providing the drugs, and it isn't always the pusher on the corner:
The chiseled professional wrestler suspected of last week's murder-suicide was prescribed a 10-month supply of steroids at least every four weeks, according to a federal indictment Monday of his Carrollton doctor.
I may disagree with your characterization of that meat, sir, but I will defend to the death your right to so mischaracterize it:
PHILADELPHIA - In a case that involves issues as lofty as the First Amendment and as basic as which cut of meat was served, a restaurant critic is being sued for libel for describing a $15 piece of beef as "miserably tough and fatty."
As dismaying as this is, it's probably no big shock:
The survey also found that, by a margin of nearly 3-to-1, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the "mutual happiness and fulfillment" of adults rather than the "bearing and raising of children."
This is a new one to me, culinary plagiarism:
Lower Manhattan, New York, which has long regarded itself as the world's ultimate trend factory, has spawned a new pastime that could spread like wildfire through America and beyond: suing over the culinary equivalent of plagiarism.
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A luxury hotel tries to lure us out of our living rooms:
Another trendy and tech-oriented hotel is planned in Plainfield, where the hospitality industry is booming.
Dora Hospitality is planning an 85-room, four-story Hotel Indigo at the Ind. 267 interchange of I-70, just west of the entry to the new terminal under construction at Indianapolis International Airport.
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At first I was worried about my younger brother and sister seeing this and having their self-esteem destroyed. But, after all, they've been dealing with the reality ever since they were born:
