The Anecdote Bin

HERE'S something else to mull over while you're waiting for Santa Claus. The Associated Press reports that a prominent British doctor has urged judges and other officials dealing with drunken-driving cases to get drunk themselves "so their judgment of offenders would be put on a sounder basis." This we gotta see: A bleary-eyed drunk teetering before a juiced-up judge. "What's up, doc?" asks the latter, inhaling a couple of deep dishes from a handy crock. "They say I'm drunk, old pal," replies the prisoner. "YOU'RE drunk?" His Honor cries, laughing like crazy. "Ho, ho ho! Officer, take me away!"