Some of the news briefs & regionally curated mailouts I read every morning make me cry-laugh.

With many regional news services plagued by difficult events, you can always tell when the editor is *really* trying to even things out with at least one lighter read.

But then the page scan looks a bit like this...

Suffering suffering mass suffering imminent suffering political corruption suffering suffering HEY COOL SCIENCE HISTORY ITEM suffering suffering suffering

It just doesn't work, y'know? 🙃