Do you ever feel as if you've lost the cutting edge; you're not hitting on all eight cylinders; you're swimming in mud and running in tar; you just can't get it together?

I want to share with you some stories that are absolutely true. They actually happened, and I believe you will agree with me that these are people who had lost the cutting edge:

An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, where the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Qwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Well, apparently the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and g…