digital emunction

If taxes aren’t your thing, at least take a break from the elections with this, which might as well be one of David Simon’s rejected story ideas:

After Mr. Cintron recently died, Mr. O’Hare, 65, and another friend, David Daloia, also 65, whose last known address was in Queens, tried, without success, to cash a Social Security check of Mr. Cintron’s, the police say. They realized that they needed their dead buddy’s help.

So on Tuesday afternoon, the police say, they dressed Mr. Cintron’s corpse, carried him down a flight of stairs and heaved his body into a computer chair with wheels. Outside, they rolled him over the uneven sidewalk, pulling the chair toward Pay-O-Matic, a check-cashing shop on Ninth Avenue.

But as the men turned the corner, trying to steady the floppy corpse, they ran into the law. [Read more]

There are fish in the water, but when they are not hungry, there is no way to catch them.

se fosse amico il re de l’universo,
noi pregheremmo lui de la tua pace