"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
I don’t believe in hypothetical situations, Mr. Donaghy. It’s like lying to your brain.” —Kenneth the Page
— Kenneth the Page
Nothing but a pack of lies.” - Damon Runyon on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
To the nola.com commenters: the most troubling thing of all is that the number of murders or robberies actually has almost nothing to do with the “effectiveness” of the police, the judges, the politicians or the District Attorney. Think about it.