A memorable installment of the weird newspaper cartoon “The Far Side” featured a man firing a pistol at an attacking werewolf without result. The man’s final realization, drawn from the uniquely ugly necktie the monster was wearing, was that the werewolf had been, before moonrise, the very sporting goods salesman who assured him that the bullets the soon-to-be victim was buying were, indeed, the finest silver.
Witness, for example, Utah state Sen. Howard Stephenson. The long-time Republican lawmaker from Draper told his colleagues last week that he had come to the sad realization that the state’s charter schools, which he had a large role in creating and funding, were performing no better than the traditional public schools around the state.