Psychic Whiplash
August, 1986
In those days, we didn't have insurance," said Mel Brooks, in character as the 2000-Year-Old Man. He was explaining what people did 20 centuries ago when they were run down by a lion. "You just lay there till you got better."In these greedy times, it seems, all you have to do is lie there until a personal-injury lawyer spots you, gets the name of the lion's insurance company and litigates for the kind of money that has to be moved around on hand trucks.There's been a lot of talk a...
