NAUGHTY BY NATURE?
I have discovered when freeway traffic is unbearably jammed, pulling into the car pool lane despite having no passengers, can really lifts one's spirits. Once there, zipping past hordes of irate commuters, I entertain myself with the challenge of coming up with a credible defense if stopped by the highway patrol. Earlier this week during one of these creative sessions I was distracted by Larry Mantle's voice on the radio. It was a teaser promoting an upcoming segment he would be doing on the egg shortage. I gave up listening to Larry Mantle more than a decade ago. His insistence on compiling several thousand words into a single question drove me off. It is especially bad when he rolls out the first question for the poor bastard being interviewed. Larry inserts every possible bit of information and nuance that he can conger up, until the question is a paragraph short of War and Peace . I don't know if there was ever enough airtime to allow for a response because