In my Scripps column this week I throw in my two cents on the debate over torture.

I’ve already received this response from one reader:

A man brings his clock to a German clock repairman and complains: “It doesn’t go tic-toc, tic-toc; it just goes ‘tic-tic-tic’.”

The clock repairman puts in his monocle and glares at the clock: “Ve hav vays to make you toc…”