Pot roast is the classic slow-cooker dish. It also is the one that is most famously disappointing. Too often it's soggy, fatty and bland.

Ask Alan Chipperfield how he ended up in the Public Defender's Office - and why he stayed there - and he gives several reasons, eventually tossing out an interesting analogy.

Question: I always figured the higher someone's education and the more money, the better their manners. So why do so many people with money and education seem to be the rudest?

ST. SIMONS ISLAND - Thank God that's over. We in Georgia have been under election siege since the July primaries. The last contests were decided in a runoff Tuesday between U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, and Democrat Jim Martin.