All men are not created equal. Neither are all women. A trip around the block teaches us that there are people with more talent, brains, bucks, and luck than we. Carl Lewis races for the gold on Pegasus-winged feet, while we huff and puff around the block. Our best friend arrives at the high school reunion in a Mercedes and boasts of his home in the Bahamas. Our son is a whiz on the Wang Computer, while we still have trouble balancing the check book.

Life is as unfair as ten rounds between ourselves and Muhammad Ali. Sometimes it seems that the rich do get richer and the poor get poorer. Sometimes it seems as if Mr. Lucky will never knock on our door. Because life is often unfair, some of us rail against the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." We become vigilantes who take the law …