It never fails

Approximately 100 percent of the time that readers counsel me to stay away from controversial topics, it is in response to the expression of an opinion in The Slice with which they do not agree.

Of course, the thing some readers don’t realize is that anything can be controversial.

The all-time angriest phone message I have received in the almost 20 years of doing The Slice came after I made some remark about cowboy hats.