“All life ends in death”, the Facebook Stranger wrote. “Why live in fear until that time.”

He wrote that in service of the 787,000 Americans who have already died before their time. He wrote that citing a potential five million Americans dead of covid.

Hey, shit happens, y’know.

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GEORGE: I quit!

PAUL: You can’t quit, you’re fired!

GEORGE: You can’t fire me, I quit!

JOHN: I might quit, too.

RINGO: I’m just waiting to be replaced by Pete Best.

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We don’t know what there is to say that hasn’t been said, that we haven’t said before, and more than once. The verdict came down Friday, and it may have been a shock, but it wasn’t a surprise. Everyone saw it coming, from the start.

People have talked about the judge, about trial procedure, about how the laws themselves are written, and these are all relevant subjects. But they don’t, to our satisfaction, get at the problem here, of which this has been yet another example, but not the thing itself.

So we ended up doing what we’ve done before: Look at voting demographics.

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Anakin: I’m tired of writing essays.


Padmé: But you’re still going to write them, right?


Anakin: (blank stare)


Padmé: But you’re still going to write them, right?

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Back when we were a reporter in McMinnville, Oregon, we covered a dump.

Sorry, landfill. When you’re a reporter, you have to be careful with your terminology.

And not just a landfill, but a new landfill, a landfill that was to go where no landfill had gone before, at least in Yamhill County. Not in anybody’s backyard, but next to some farmland, and a creek. Virgin soil.

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How satisfied were you with your candy?

Satisfied

Not satisfied

Dude, you gave me a rock

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