Salting the Earth
Illustration: Jim Cooke Year in Review 2018We made it through another weird year. Let’s look back on how we got over. I was on my way home from a camping trip on an unusually cool summer day when I learned that John McCain had died. I saw that George H.W. Bush had died, at age 94, while standing in my kitchen, whacking a pomegranate with a wooden spoon to shake the seeds loose. I had to wipe my hands clean to read the news on my phone. These were quiet deaths of very old men, but the spectacle created around them—the eulogies, the media hagiography delivered on a loop during an...
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