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I spent last week at Youth and Government Youth Legislature as an appellate court justice and a member of the Press Corps.

The editor-in-chief was a perky senior named Amelia. For some reason, her delegation was in the habit of sending her bad puns on the little slips of paper that eighthgrade pages ran around the Capitol delivering.

You know what the terrible thing about puns is? However awful they may be, they stick in your head if there’s anything the least bit clever about them.

I was planning to write an impressive column this week, but the pressure in the Press Corps was so great (and th...