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Many years ago, my mother, the daughter of German immigrants, preached the importance of an education.

"You need a college degree," she said.

It was 1950 and already school was going badly.

I was in first grade and didn't always behave and got my ears pulled and pinched.

"For the love of Jesus," that nun said, "we'll straighten you out, you little bugger."

She was Irish and I thought a bugger must be her way of calling me a booger.

And here on Saturday, I was reading some quotes by the deceased Al McGuire, a Hall of Fame basketball coach, who made more sense than all these politicians wanti...