Here’s how we get people to stop using guns to kill people: We work on making people not want to kill people.

An example of lazy object naming: The orange.

People should use their baby photos in their obits — that’s when they looked their best.

We have a lot of public art in Western Washington that depicts salmon, so much so that if anyone is around in 2,000 years to dig through what remains of our civilization, they’ll think we worshiped those swimming creatures. Imagine their shock, then, when they discover we ate the object we worshipped, often with a lemon slice.

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