It can, and it does. What am I talking about? We'll get to that. First, some news in the paper today made me think of this:

I'd just scanned that for a site about downtown Minneapolis; Can you identify it? Good. Gold star. Now name this restaurant, shown elsewhere on the postcard:

Answers at the bottom.

NOT THE ONION You'd be forgiven for thinking it was.

To be fair, I don't think he was all the McGruffs, any more than all the Ronald McDonalds were Willard Scott.

TECH The tablet is dead! All you people using a tablet during the day, put it down and move along with your lives. Tablets are over.

Translation: the author uses his tablet less than he used to, and from this extrapolates broad trends so undeniable he feels confident in using the first-person plural. To continue:

Prose is hard, the skill of writing good prose is harder, but the future will never embrace the word "phabulous," let along "phablet." The very word looks obese. As for the dying part, I use my tablet more than ever. Reading magazines on smaller devices is impossible; watching movies on an iPad mini on the plane is much better than squinting at a big phone. But if you like larger phones, so be it; I don't know why these things bother people, or they feel compelled to brand their own preference proof you're doing it wrong. Or will be doing it less. Or something.

VotD he problem with labeling everything "iconic" is summed up perfectly in this 30-second spot: the Sistine Chapel and "Reservoir Dogs" are grouped together for the most simplistic reasons. On the other hand, it's pretty cool. One continuous take.

ANSWERS The striped building, of course, was the Radisson, which A) suffered a regrettable modernization that gave it pinkish stripes, and B) was in the news today to announce that everything is going swimmingly with the chain. As for this:

It's the logo for the old Brothers Deli chain. There's still one downtown, and its website says: "Mike and Dora Burstein opened Mike's Cafe in 1935. In 1959, Mike's sons Leonard and Sam moved Mike's Cafe to 19 South 7th Street and renamed it the Brothers Deli. Leonard and Sam soon made the Brothers a successful chain, at one time including 16 restaurants around Minnesota and North Dakota." That's the 7th street restaurant above.

One last video, just for fun. People are gloating over this, because they find the runners irritating. Uproxx cites "hubris and condescending windbaggery."

So, here you go: today's Internet People Served Up for Pointing and Judging.