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What Do I Know
What Do I Know
What Do I Know
WHAT DO I KNOW?
BY RICHARD MURPHY
tried to get my wife to take all the family’s
I
about it that appeals to the twentieth-century
money and put it into Mega-bucks tickets. mentality.”
LEGAL My rationale was that I had always said it
would be a cold day in July before I ever won any
Orwell then went on to prove the point that
he himself had no reason to believe the world
BRIEF money. Well we had a lot of cold rainy July days
this year. August, however turned out sultry hot.
was round even though he accepted that it was.
Of course we who are living now can point to
ROBERT A. GEORGE, ESQ. Still it is a summer like none that I remember. pictures from space and all that, but we have to
STURBRIDGE ATTORNEY
We have had rainy spells, but little as soggy as admit that few of us have made a study of it and
this year. The weather occasioned a debate on are taking it more or less on faith. His closing
M O N T H LY L E G A L A DV I C E
F O R R E A D E R S O F
talk radio. The hosts generally take the position paragraph sums it up:
T H E S T U R B R I D G E T I M E S M AG A Z I N E that the low temps prove global warming a “It will be seen that my reasons for thinking
hoax. Some callers will argue the other side, a that the earth is round are rather precarious
few even positing the cold spell as evidence that ones. Yet this is an exceptionally elementary
AVOIDING PROBATE warming is true.
Which side is right? Beats me. My cousin in
piece of information. On most other questions I
should have to fall back on the expert much ear-
usually waterlogged Seattle tells me they are lier, and would be less able to test his pronounce-
here are plenty of ways to avoid pro-