All across the country, doctors, teachers, coaches, and ministers, are working in fear. The "litigation nation" that the United States has become is giving them pause and making them walk on eggshells for fear of being sued. Newsweek reports that ministers are even afraid to be too comforting toward their congregation, for fear of being accused of hanky panky. The lawsuit worries even stretch to the playground.

Playgrounds all over the country have been stripped of monkey bars, jungle gyms, high slides and swings, seesaws and other old-fashioned equipment once popularized by President John F. Kennedy's physical-fitness campaign. The reason: thousands of lawsuits by people who hurt themselves at playgrounds. But some experts say that new, supposedly safer equipment is actually more dangerous because risk-loving kids will test themselves by, for instance, climbing across the top of a swing set. Other kids sit at home and get fat -- and their parents sue McDonald's.

Talk about your damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Trial lawyers have created a lottery mentality, whereby people that suffer any sort of loss in life feel that someone, anyone, should compensate them for it. One day, it might just be you.