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My old boss, professional wrestling, the state of Florida, and a kind of silly thing I used to do in law school. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

When I was a brand new trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice years ago, my section chief was a veteran lawyer named Jerry.

He’s since retired, but Jerry was a good boss and a great human being. We worked in the Tax Division, and he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code.

This was a good thing, because I knew very little about it, at least at the start.

More surprisingly however, he also had a deep knowledge of profressional wrestling. The two big takeaways I remember were:

1. Don’t ask fans if they think wrestling is “real.”

2. Every wrestling story line includes at least two main characters: the hero (known as “the face”) and the villain (known as “the heel.”)

That windup brings us to our docket today, which includes a professional wrestling story. Who’s the face, and who is the heel?

Florida Man allows wrestling

The tale comes from Tallahasee, where Governor Ron DeSantis apparently changed the state’s lockdown criteria in a way that will allow the WWE (World Wrestl…