DEAR ABBY'S AT IT AGAIN

[Doc Rock]

Jerry,

The banner in my local paper, The (Allentown, PA) Morning Call, read "Locals in wine country know they must drive with caution."

Innocuous enough, I suppose, to be bullet-proof from "rational" criticism. After all, who can argue with the idea that drivers ANYWHERE should drive with caution? But the implicit message - that the roadways in wine country are a particularly dangerous place to be - is offered with no evidence to support it, as you adeptly point out.

Reminds me of Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" about the Salem witch trials where a mere accusation was sufficient to convict.

I guess we haven't learned much in the last 300 years.