We all could use a good laugh

The other day I stopped at an antique store and brought home a couple of old books, as I am wont to do (a fancy-pants phrase meaning “again”).

So I’ve been reading Will Rogers: Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom by P.J. O’Brien, which I take is a “quickie biography” rolled out after Rogers’ death in a plane crash Aug. 15, 1935, since it bears a 1935 copyright date itself.

(Aside to writers who struggle to wring out their words a few at a time: Yep, here’s more proof that...