The falling thing reminds me of the lard vat in The Jungle.

You mean the hilarious cartoon book version? The Jungle Book?

No. The one where the guy tried to boost socialism in the United States but instead made people concerned for their food quality.

My brother tells the story of how they read that book in high school, and were only assigned the first half. All the gory parts, none of the invitation to consider a socialist paradigm.

It's an easy book report.

Wait. What prehistoric germs?

Uh oh. That means they've got you.

Anyway, I mostly feel that the concept of a civil society in the United States is under external and internal attack. It would preclude me from finding anything funny if it weren't for the fact I think think what my opponents want is to take the joy out of everyone else's life.

I'm thinking of giving up reading the news for Lent.

Something similar happened at Guinness brewery, except it did not end happily. As her initial wailing subsided the young now-widow asked the bearers of the sad news whether at least her poor Seamus had gone quickly. "I'm afraid not," came the reply. "The truth is he got out three times to pee."

I was gotten by 10. Heh.

10. Yes, Irish humour is surprisingly close to British sometimes.

I thought I had seen other "deadly germs are coming out of the melting permafrost article" recently but I guess there hasn't been any news on that front since December so it's probably fine now.

Pretend I put the correct articles and quotation marks there. I would have if I weren't so stressed out about zombie viruses and spy balloons.

I have eaten
the the mast-
adon in the
ice field

and which
you were probably
saving
for science

Forgive me
it was stringy
tough meat
and so old

Bravo.

It was a cry for help.

The Article reminds of how the National Law Journal covered a commercial plane crash: One article, a while after the event, with short profiles of (a) the lawyers representing the passengers' families, who would get rich; (b) the lawyers representing the defendant airline, who would be significantly enriched; and (c) the lawyers who who died in the crash, who would not be enriched in this case, or any other ever again. Sometimes it's better to have separate articles.