True.
But we hope metropolitan Chicago comes away from this episode with more than one dead cougar and a communal sadness that perhaps didn’t have to be.
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We suggest a cougar protocol. A reliable one. Does the cougar have a cop protocol? I would like to think so.
If you are thinking that I am just having unfair sport with a piece of writing that was destined to be boilerplate and wondering what I would have done (other than argue in favor of an editorial on the authorization of torture in the White House and then go hide in the bathroom), I probably just would have run the last few paragraphs from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and called it a day knowing that people would have been reading something more interesting than I could have written. But I think the problem is a bit more general:
