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This was one time I felt exactly like him,as we three stood pondering our dilemma calmly, maturely.And I did again when he yelled I'm scaredas the clunker with wide headlights and bad muffler("Hell Wagon" or "Devil's Dream" no doubt inscribed on the fender--voted Car Of The Year by escaped convicts and serial killers)glided like a crocodile toward our throbbing, imported taillightsand idled there.
First, let's set aside any pondering about what the chief justice will or will not do.
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.
Dear Confused and Pondering,
While we're free to second-guess his decision to fly to Martha's Vineyard, maybe we should be pondering another question: Why were the rest of us paying him to do it?