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I bought some shoes at K-Mart because they were cheap. They looked comfortable - and they are comfortable - and so I was happy with my new shoes because I was now comfortably among a special class of people: People with boat shoes on their feet. I don't really have a boat - though I do want one. I'm guessing most men who wear boat shoes don't have a boat either. I believe this whole thing got started by people who maybe once did own a boat at one time and started buying this style of shoe ...

(This was inspired by a news report of a 9-year-old boy who got past two security checkpoints, had no ticket and managed to fly to Las Vegas on his own.) Last Friday morning, veteran Minneapolis teacher Giselle Schumacher thought it was too good to be true when she heard the news bulletin on her car radio. This would be her last year of teaching - number 36 - and she didn't know if she was going to make it to Thanksgiving, let alone to the end of the school year. But she believed wi ...