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Read carefully; this column will be the last I write as a service of Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. After 32 years of accountable duty and two additional
Read carefully; this column will be the last I write as a service of Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. After 32 years of accountable duty and two additional
| Updated: 7:36 p.m. I wrote my first newspaper column in 1986. Did it for free. The Springville Herald was a small-town weekly and couldn’t afford to pay me. That was OK because I was in it entirely for the fun. Given that I was still a cop at the time, I wrote under a pseudonym. The idea was to keep the two sides of my brain separate. Didn’t work. Kirby I soon learned that what kept me sane as a cop worked in writing newspaper columns — namely, an appreciation for human irony. Humans are the only animal that can actually reason itself stupider.