Since Al Laffer is in the news for being his 🙄self, I feel obligated to tell you of the time that my Dad gave me the charades clue "Laffer Curve" to act out.

I was 10.
"Everybody knows what this is," he insisted.

Journalists, man.
That same game that he also stuck me to act out "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" which is an expression from the 1920s penchant for horrific brain surgery to address mental illness if you'd like to inflict this clue on your own family.
And that is how I learned about lobotomies at 10 years of age.

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Going back to the office for the first time in more than a year is like struggling to snap out of amnesia. Where are the cards and code I need to get into building? Don’t forget to bring reading glasses. Etc.
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