I had originally intended my “Lawyers Behaving Badly” series to be a two-parter. But these darn lawyers just keep on getting into trouble, and that trouble keeps on making news.
As with the attorneys discussed in the previous two columns, the ethical lapses of these lawyers only contribute to the public’s poor perception of the profession.

When she was two years old, she was in the hospital about to have her tonsils removed. She was screaming and crying. She was scared.

It’s a “Game of Life” out there... It doesn’t matter whether you “Win, Lose or Draw,” though. What matters is that you “Don’t Spill the Beans” and that you “Don’t Break the Ice.” What matters most, though, is that if you’re bored, play a board game, and it’s more fun than a “Barrel Full of Monkeys” if you win.

Mickey Money asked me to write about how people come up with weird names for their babies, and why don’t they name them regular names? Well, Mickey, I haven’t a clue.

If anything will convince you you’re gliding into the golden years with increasing speed, it’s these three little words from a doctor:
“You have cataracts.”

A man walked into a dentist’s office and asked the receptionist, “Do you cater to chickens?”
After the receptionist said, “Yes, we even cater to scaredy cats, the man spit out his gum and agreed to let the dentist get to the root of his problem with only on one condition — that he get the laughing gas. Not that the laughing gas was going to make him laugh, but at least he’d calm down to the point of no extractions.

Royse City, which had claimed its first district basketball championship since 1974 lost a hard-fought battle against the Carrollton Ranchview Wolves, 55-47, Friday night at Mesquite Horn High School in a Class 3A Area Round playoff contest.

This is just the kind of weather to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea.
Since I’m writing this several days in advance, I have no way of knowing whether it’s cold and dreary outside or sunny and spring-like, but no matter. Any day is an ideal time for tea, particularly if it’s Earl Grey.

Perhaps it’s only appropriate that in a hotly-contested election year, the latest legal thriller from trial lawyer-turned-literary cottage industry John Grisham centers on the buying of influence in the courts by moneyed special interests.