The other day while watching the evening news, it crossed my mind that "the world is going to hell in a handbasket." I don't know what a handbasket is, other than the obvious possibility that it's a small basket that is easily carried. I'll bet they collected eggs in a handbasket on the farm way back when my father was a child. But I don't know the significance of going to hell in one.

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" 'Hell in a handbasket' poses one of the most perplexing problems that has crossed our desk in years."

The woman ahead of me in a supermarket checkout line wrote a check for three bananas. I was appalled. "No wonder the country is going down the drain," I told the children that evening as they settled in front of the TV to watch "Miami Vice." "You mean to hell in a hand basket," said the oldest child as he rose to refresh his bourbon.

Neither side now cares a fig ... and would send them all to heaven in a hand-basket.

Hundreds of Lodi teens will gather tonight at this year's prom to carouse and dance, but they better not be drunk and they definitely shouldn't "back it up." ... "No wonder this whole town is going to hell in a hand basket."

"If I was being taken up to heaven in a hand-basket I would step out of it, for the delight of this."

"Everything has gone to hell in a hand basket, and we got stuck holding the basket."

"It's a little odd for Boivin, who will have both a child and a grandchild simultaneously, but people wrap their heads around these things." "... vague concerns that society is going to hell in a hand basket, I don't think are good enough [to block the transaction]."

I always value reader interaction, although some of you are more gracious than others. You all come from the same demographic; were I to hazard a guess, I’d say your average age was close to 75. There's a lot of talk about World War II and the world going to hell in a h... [ Read More (1.6k in body) ]