Hotheads and no ‘home training’

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For us columnist types, that fracas aboard a Cleveland bus that was caught on video that recently went viral might be the gift that keeps on giving.

In case you’re one of those people who values your sanity and seeks to preserve it — which means you avoid most of what is on the Internet — here’s what happened: Artis Hughes, a 59-year-old bus driver for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, hit 25-year-old Shi’Dea Lane with a right uppercut that would have done former heavyweight champion George Foreman proud. Under normal circumstances, many — and I’m hoping most — people would be adamantly opposed to a man hitting a woman, especially with a hard, potentially jaw-breaking uppercut. But what happened on that Cleveland bus back on Sept. 18 can hardly be described as normal, which is why the incident is chock-full of fodder for newspaper columnists.

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