A judge in New York City was mugged. Later he called a press conference. He made the following statement to reporters, "This mugging will in no way affect my decisions in adjudicating matters of this kind." An elderly woman stood up in the back of the room and said, "Then mug him again!" She wanted to make sure the judge got the message about what is happening in the streets of our cities.

An old man was trying to lead a contrary donkey down the road. A passer-by stopped him and commented on the way the donkey was behaving. "Oh, I can make him do anything I want him to do with just a kind word," the owner said.

"Doesn't look like it to me," the other sneered.

"Sure, I can," the owner said. Whereupon he climbed off the donkey, picked up a two-by-four beside the road, and clobbered the an…