DUST MY PUMICE

They should’ve had a big tote board with the weekend’s highway death toll on the wall but they did not. Just the big money tote, signifying to exactly what extent the Memorial Day T-Viewers felt like digging down into their pockets on behalf of wha-? Highway safety? Yes, a telethon for highway safety! Y’see highway non-safety’s the one realm of corporeal misfortune everybody’s either experienced fir hand or at least seen and gawked at sure ain’t like cystic fibrosis or myasthenia gravis (after all, who’s ever seen any victims of them except of TV?).