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‘The Silly Season’ (My Newswithviews Column, July 18)

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PORT CRIKEY BOY STARTS ANT FARM! (Vintage Silly Season)

Gee, I miss the Silly Season. That’s what we newspaper reporters and editors called the summer. For two glorious months, most of the nooze we had to cover was profoundly unimportant. But it could be kind of fun to pretend otherwise.

The Silly Season

Where has it gone, our beloved Silly Season? It was a break from all the usual business of public figures tearing one another down, hissing, spitting, cursing. And others being purely tiresome, trying to boost themselves up.

ROMAN COIN FOUND IN COIN SHOP! GRANDMA’S SORE TOE PREDICTS WEATHER!

I dare the nooze media to bring back the Silly Season and run its non-stories up against “the news.” I double-dog dare ’em!

My Newswithviews Column, July 13 (‘The Silly Season’)

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You’ve just gotta love those Obamas, rage-tweeting about how oppressed they are, aboard a luxury yacht in Greece; and the dindles in Oregon who want segregated hiking paths in the middle of the forest. It takes a lot of work to achieve this much idiocy.

The Silly Season

Summer used to be “the silly season” in news reporting; but now the silliness goes on year-round. I once, uh, “covered” a 9-year-old finding a dead fish washed up on the beach (who’d have thought it!)… because there was nothing else to write about and we had a paper to fill.

Hey! Are we all done with lockdowns yet? I mean, we could use ’em to avoid the risk of meeting anyone who might be “prejudiced”…

Woman Calls Cops 12,000 Times

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Are people in general getting loopier?

A woman in Florida has been arrested for calling the St. Petersburg police 12,000 times so far this year–including 512 calls in one 24-hour period (https://newsable.asianetnews.com/weird-news/florida-woman-arrested-for-calling-911-over-12000-times-this-year-to-taunt-harass-officers-rgv6d3). Police described her calls as “vulgar, threatening, or filthy,” and combative.

Her calls were “kind of getting in the way of our capacity to help normal people who need police assistance,” a police spokesman said. Ya think?

It may be that a lot of people have always done a lot of screwy things, and it’s just getting reported much more than it used to be. I dunno. Newspapers always used to have a “silly season,” when the politics was slow and they filled up space with odd and unusual stories.

Or maybe the silly season just got longer. About 12 months long.