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This new study provides a refreshing look at the issue of exceptions and shows that much of the problem stems from a failure to recognize at least two kinds of exception-ridden law: ceteris paribus laws and ideal laws.

Billy Edd Wheeler is a veteran of the country music scene, having worked as a Nashville songwriter since the early 1960s. Billy Edd knows country, and, as title-holder to the moniker "Dean of Country Humor," he also knows funny. "It's impossible to attend a recording session in Nashville without hearing lots of stories and jokes," Billy Edd observes. After all, stories and humor form the foundation of country music. Wheeler has gathered jokes from some of the greatest names in country music in what reads like outtakes from a long-running recording session. The list on contributors spans the...

From the people of the Appalachian Mountains comes a special brand of humor: dry, colorful and earthy, aimed sometimes at the hillbilly's own foibles, but often at the outside world's pretenses, too. As longtime fans of and contributors to Appalachian lore, Jones and Wheeler collected the material for this popular and timeless volume at the Festival of Appalachian Humor sponsored by the Appalachian Center at Berea College. Includes jokes and yarns on such topics as hunting, lawyers and doctors, alcohol, and religion, along with essays on the nature and origins of humor.

In the midst of all that may bother us crime, drugs, poisons in the water, poor health people still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen on the streetcorners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you'll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. Hometown humor helps pull us through. In this book, Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler have gathered the best of America's hometown humor. The selections range from one-liners ( My wife's cooking was so bad, the flies got together to mend the screens ) to epigrams ( To do good is noble, but to tell others to do good is also...