Sunday,  Nov. 10, 2013 • Vol. 16--No. 117 • 12 of 32

If you like your Apple fritter, you can eat your Apple fritter.
• Dr. James L. Snyder

• Growing up back in "the day," most people put a lot of credence on promises and lived by the motto, "A man is as good as his word." Most agreements were sealed with a handshake. If you said you were going to do something, you did it. Period.
• Today it is an altogether different story. We need a lawyer with a pile of paperwork in order to do anything these days. A lawyer has the sneakability to make words say anything convenient at the time depending on what the word "is" is, and when you said it.
• It matters not what a man says anymore only what he can get away with at the

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