FAYETTEVILLE -- Decades ago at Roger's Rec a bartender was overheard teasing a longtime attorney friend.
"Do you know the difference between a dead lawyer in the middle of the road and a dead snake in the middle of the road?"
"No," the lawyer replied. "What is it?"
"There are skid marks in front of the snake."
Thoughts of that joke resurfaced in a good way with the announcement earlier in the week that University of Arkansas attorney Scott Varady would become executive director of the Razorback Foundation on Dec. 1.
With Varady the skid marks would start miles ahead just on the notion that he might be caught standing in the middle of the road.