L.M. Boyd Trivia

• Q. How do you account for the statistic that indicates divorced people are five times more likely than the married to commit suicide, but the separated are four times more likely than the divorced to do it?

A. Separation usually doesn’t settle the issue. Divorce oftentimes does. So opines our Love and War man who contends nothing is so demoralizing as unsettled issues.

• If a country has paper, its people have playing cards.