A Leaf, a Fine, and Bureaucratic Absurdity The scene is painfully ordinary: an 86-year-old man sitting outside in Skegness, England, minding his business, when a rogue leaf — dry, brown, doing what leaves do — blows straight into his mouth. He spits it out. The state intervenes. This is bureaucratic…
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Whatever Happened to Trusting Parents to Parent?
When I was ten, I had two paper routes. Not one — two. Up before sunrise, folding papers in the garage, rubber bands snapping against my fingers. Then out the door on my bike, hoping the wind wouldn’t tear the Observer in half before it hit the porch. By thirteen,…