Today’s Impromptus is a “London Journal.” Somewhere along the way, I make some remarks about newspapers:

Like many others, from all over the English-speaking world, I get a kick out of reading British newspapers. They are colorful, distinctive — not-bland. Mark Steyn is always complaining about the “monodailies” in the United States, and rightly. Our papers tend to be conformist and monotonous and zzzzz . . .
Of course, some of the British papers are not renowned for accuracy. I suppose boring and accurate is better than colorful and inaccurate. But colorful and accurate — now you’re talkin’.

This morning, I was combing my files for an upcoming Impromptus. And I found this report, from March 20. It is from the Associated Press, datelined Lincolnton, N.C. Here we go: “Police say a man in North Carolina sucked a woman’s toes at a Wal-Mart after he convinced her he was a podiatry student and persuaded her to take off her shoes.”

I assume this report is accurate. And it gives you hope, doesn’t it?

P.S. I thought, “Hey, wait a minute: What’s a town in North Carolina doing being named after Lincoln?” Turns out the Lincoln is Benjamin Lincoln, a general in the Revolution.