News Headline: “Eating cheese can help strengthen your heart.”
News Headline: “New study suggests that a nap can save your life.”
Keep up the good work, researchers!

News Headline: “Merriam-Webster adds non-binary pronoun ‘they’ to dictionary.”
News Headline: “BBC films teach children of ‘100 genders, or more.’ ”
We may need more pronouns.

News Headline: “Naked man carrying beer hides in Indiana cornfield.”
As reasonable a response as any to the news of the day.

News Headline: “The walls are closing in on Trump.”
No. Wait.
The headline is from last year.
Add “closing in” to the list of things that aren’t what they used to be.

QT sunspot and solar wind update:
0 and 806,400 mph.
Enough said.
A word to the wise.

News Headline: “Donald Trump complains about homeless people living ‘on our best entrances to buildings.’ ”
So this is where he takes us.
It isn’t just that the poor are hungry or sick.
He can live with that.
But they’re so unsightly.

News Headline: “Can Trump be trusted with state secrets?”
News Headline: “Is Trump playing with a full deck?”
News Headline: “Is Trump a rapist?”
News Headline: “Could naked mole-rats take over after an asteroid impact?”
No, no, not unlikely, worth a try.
See how easy?

News Headline: “We will never, ever, be rid of Donald Trump.”
News Headline: “Enormous black hole in Milky Way Galaxy appears to be hungry.”
So there is hope.

News Headline: “Man shot and injured by grocery store near The Grove.”
Doug Dahlgren, a Chicago reader, wonders where the grocery store got hold of the gun.

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News Headline: “Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point.”
For those interested in the most important story in the world that the world seems to have lost interest in.