Globe Discovers Terrifying New Form of Precipitation

Whether it's a front page story about how it makes us cranky or a notebook piece about how it has covered verdant Fenway in a blanket of alien white, the Globe won't stop puzzling until it has figured out this strange new entity that it calls "snow."

Edit: We wrote this post last night, when we were willing to give the Globe the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was a slow news day. But, this morning the newspaper exceeded our expectations by running a front page article about—what else?—a pothole. If this is what the newspaper is doing before newsroom cuts, what dark corner of reality can we expect the Globe to illuminate with 50 fewer staffers? Here are a few suggestions:

• Floating vehicles can be used to transport people across water.
• Escalators, when broken, become stairs.
• Subway trains are often the setting for unexpected encounters.
• Young people drink.

(Apologies to Mitch Hedberg.)