The definition of irony

From an nytimes blog, on why perhaps they should require mothers to have licenses.

And finally, this from Tuesday’s Middletown Journal, in Middletown, Ohio. The day after New Year’s, a family of four — parents and their two young children — entered the local Dollar General Store. As they left an employee noticed that the mother’s purse seemed “noticeably larger than it had been minutes earlier.”

When the employee asked to search the bag the woman ran, dumping stolen contents as she fled. Among those items: wash clothes, small hand towels, a small rug and a book entitled “101 Ways to Be a Great Mom.”