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I have been assigned, or rather happily volunteered to answer an "Ask the Californian" question. It is actually a two part query where a reader first asked: 1. Why do journalists always use the adverb "bodily" to modify the noun "fluids"? 2. If the protagonist in Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" shot a man in Reno "just to watch him die," why would he be incarcerated in Folsom Prison? These are good questions. I have spent more time on the second one because...well because its a lot more fun to make phone calls for. I figure I can ask around the newsroom for opinions on the first one. Calls for the "Folsom Prison Blues" mystery have put me in touch with people from the Buck Owen Crystal Palace, the California Dept. of Corrections, the Nevada Dept. of Corrections and a Reno-based author by the name of Caleb Cage who recently wrote a story on exactly the same topic. I think a serious answer to a...
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