Alan Fossler

I was listening to a baseball game Saturday when my phone chimed. “I’m sure you’ve already seen this and won’t find any of it surprising,” a friend had texted. There was a link to the Dallas Morning News, and a headline with the name “Jim Dent.” With Jim, things were always either very good or very bad. Nervous, I clicked. The story’s photo showed him staring out from a jail. The news story said that Dent, a hard-drinking, best-selling author, now seems bound for federal prison. After his ninth…