The Mother-in-Law joke.  It is – was – a staple of the stand-up comedian.  I’d like to take a moment to talk about my Mother-in-Law, Carol Richardson.  Y’see, she died today. Cancer’s a bitch. It really is.  It doesn’t care whether you’re young or old, rich or poor, man, woman or child.  Over the last few years,…

Happy New Year! The time has come, as the walrus may or may not have said, to talk of many things.  I shall not be discussing sailing ships, sealing wax, cabbages or kings.  Nor shall I be wondering why the sea is boiling hot or whether pigs have wings.  I shall be considering, most carefully,…