Category: Local

Recent reports following the 2016 election cycle have revealed that the majority of news stories shared on Social Media in general and Facebook in particular were written by unshaven, overweight, hygiene-impaired malcontents living in a fever swamp of their own pitiful misogyny, anger, and despondency. And Breitbart’s Steve Bannon was not the only journalist implicated. Unfortunately other previously reputable journalistic enterprises have also become entangled in the growing scandal. Our very own Picky Bystander, the newspaper of record for Southeast Takoma Park and unpopulated parts of East Silver Spring, has…

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Kate Stewart, the mayor of Takoma Park, is clearly exasperated by the latest outbreak of the Japanese scourge.  “We have small children afraid to go to parks, we have illegal fighting and gambling, we have a huge increase in our extermination budget, not to mention the cost of cleaning up Pokeman excrement all over town.  This really is Takoma Park’s Hurricane Katrina, or Sharknado or whatever the hell you want to call it.  We appealed to Governor Hogan for emergency funding to clean up this mess, but unfortunately the State’s…

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