why you can't rely on the newspapers

to give you the news, unless you read closely. When I'm chained to my computer working, as I am now, I take breaks by checking news sites, but at other times I don't, and I never listen to news radio unless I'm in my car and there's a traffic jam or other local natural disaster I need to keep tabs on.

John Boehner's resignation happened too late for yesterday's paper, and by the time of today's it was old news, relegated to a(n admittedly front-page) feature article, with a vague headline, on what happens next, focusing on the impact on California if the next Speaker comes from here (which seems a slightly precipitate judgment at the moment, and what did Boehner do for Ohio, anyway?)

If I hadn't caught headlines and discussions online, and if the headline had caused me to skip over the article, I wouldn't have known until later of Boehner's resignation, and then I'd wonder, "When did that happen, and why didn't I know about it?"

Boehner seems, for the first time in at least five years, to be a happy man, and one can understand why. It's the rest of us who have nothing to be happy about. Already bad, things in the House are likely just to get worse.