"justify": another reversal

[Jonathan Lighter]

Add to the list that includes _ancestor_, _substitute_, and (soon) _*via_.

Said a college-grad Bad Girl this week, "I don't think the punishment
justifies the crime!"  She meant it didn't fit the crime.

I was going to ignore this as a foolish slip. Then I found nearly 1500 raw
Googlits for "punishment justifies the crime."

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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