“Imagine a tiny car in a circus where clown after clown after clown climbs out, a veritable boxcar’s worth of clowns emerging in all, and you get an idea of what happened when I carelessly ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...