A year ago, I would have agreed. But after the Blue Jays came within a literal inch of a World Series title by going against the accepted wisdom and Alex Overchkin blew by Wayne Gretzky's unbeatable goal scoring record... Who knows? It only takes one team crazy or desperate enough to try.

I guess that the new "harder" PAT rules play a role as well. Before, you'd kick twice and tie. No brainer. Now, you figure there's at least a chance that you're going to miss a kick. So you try to score two on the 1st drive, hoping that you have a tie secured in case you miss the kick on the 2nd.

For the promise that Lucy will come to the park with a football at some point, to be exact. It's incredible how bad these people are at their jobs.

Yes. Surgery without anesthesia or antiseptics. Only a handful of medications that did anything beyond soothe pain (which is not nothing, don't get me wrong, but hardly enough.) Minimal sanitation or public health knowledge. And all of it expensive.

You could heist the sirens.

One. We couldn't afford an encyclopedia. But some of these things I did so often they ought to count twice and drive my score to about -7.

Who did he steal it from?

Yep. It was a famous case of corporate plagiarism (famous in Quebec, anyway) that the culprits dragged on, and on, and on, probably hoping that the plaintiff would die of stress, which he almost did. Not the judicial system's finest moment, even if the good guy ended up winning at last.

In theory, I wouldn't mind. In practice, I had myself recused permanently because of my low vision.

Anecdote: one of the guys in my pool, the last time I was called up, had a brother who served on a trial that lasted twelve years. (On and off, of course, but still. You don't get to pick.)

Exactly.

I suppose if it kills 99% of us, that *could* end scarcity.

It *is* a void of nothingness, and people *are* blithely walking into it to their dooms. Where do you think the inspiration for every French movie of the past 50 years comes from?

DOJ has been Dom'ed by a Sub.

File under "great moments in private sector efficiency."

(Another: An investment corp once sent me 4 copies of the same form, by snail mail, in four separate envelopes, on the same day. That form was a paperwork reduction waiver. I owned none of the company's financial instruments at the time.)

(Sometimes there aren't enough hands or foreheads for all the facepalms that we need.)

You might be able to find some half-burnt leftovers from the repairs in the backyard, which they'll be happy to let you leave with?

(Parfois, il n'y a juste pas assez de mains ni de fronts pour tous les facepalms dont on aurait besoin.)