It was probably never true, but for many years I foolishly thought that ‘bankruptcy’ meant ‘going out of business.’ That’s what it means if a mom-and-pop restaurant or shop declares bankruptcy. When companies get ginormous, though, they never go away. Rite Aid will ‘reorganize’ itself with fresh investors, and it’ll still be a shitty drug store long after everyone reading this is dead.

Hockey has been dead to me since the NHL made this announcement.

There are things going on that are less important than which monstrous Republican is Speaker of the House and which office Nancy Pelosi’s desk is in, but Republicans are fucking the world over in many, many far more important ways.

And maybe some time before he dies, let Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn out of this American dungeon.