You know, this morning I'm reading the local news, as I have most mornings for a decade, and I noticed something I never had before.

At the bottom of the front page of each local paper's website, there's a row of headshots of ordinary citizens.

In the northern paper, they're obituaries, so we can extend sympathy to our neighbors.

In the Daytona paper, they're mugshots, so we can sneer at and gossip about our neighbors.

Kind of says a lot.


ETA: sorry about the smiley face, don't know what I clicked to put it there accidentally, can't find a way to remove it.