"400 Marbles and One Snicker-Snack!"

This morning, I went out to get the newspaper. It was much thicker than usual; no surprise, since it's the day before Black Friday. I brought it inside, stripped off the wrapper and stuffed it into the recycling bag, and began sorting through, separating chaff (into the bin immediately) from stuff I actually wanted to read.

There were advertisements.

There were catalogs.

There were coupons.

There was miscellaneous unclassifiable junk.

What there wasn't, was anything resembling news. No sports page, no opinion page, no front page.

At least they included the comics page.