Many fairytales are quest stories in which the hero must accomplish a task before he wins the princess’s hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses is my favorite.  Joe Manchin sent his Democratic colleagues on a quest to gain bi-partisan support for two voting rights bills he support

It’s official. Sherlock Holmes no longer belongs to Conan Doyle.  He belongs to the world.  So ruled a federal judge in Chicago last December when the estate of Sir Arthur sued Leslie Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, over copyright violations.  The ruling fol