A couple of commenters have obliquely alluded to the strange and disturbing practice of “furring,” which is described by Metro.co.uk this way: Forget dogging – the new sex craze is ‘furring’. The practice sees people dressing up in giant teddy bear or other outfits and meeting in woodlands and forests for sex. Participants – sometimes called ‘furverts’ – also dress as rabbits, squirrels or cartoon characters. One furry – known

It’s the title of a famous piece on King Lear, but also pertains to the story of the just-graduated high school cheerleaders, who, perhaps because the driver of the car going to the summer home of one of the girls’ parents, distracted by a text message from the following vehicle, crashed headlong into a truck and died. Of course we know what will be said of this, with some truth:

About 20 years ago in my hometown of Milwaukee, there was a spate of abductions of black lantern-bearing statuary from residences throughout the City and its environs. Eventually, the terrorists, referring to themselves as The Porch Monkey Liberation Front, issued a list of demands to the City through the Milwaukee Journal. The mayor held fast, refusing to deal with them, but alas! it was many years before the abductees would