Diary of a Mad County

Monday, Nov. 21 Mission Viejo and Lake Forest are ranked among the nation’s Top 10 safest cities, according to the annual reference book City Crime Rankings. The rankings, compiled by Morgan Quitno Press of Lawrence, Kansas—where “danger comes at the business end of a cob”—suggest that residents of the two cities are among the least likely to become victims of serious crime or have a conversation about African-American literature. The book’s most-dangerous list includes Camden, New Jersey, followed by Detroit, St. Louis and Anywhere Near Robert Blake.

Tuesday, Nov. 22 Not really here.

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