Labor Day should be two weeks from now

It's still summer, but no one believes that. When the sun makes it out from behind the haze, it doesn't have the weak-tea strength of fall. The bugs are droning. Everything's green, and there's not a hint of the wan hues that will make the world look like it's being drained of its vitality. It's warmer than June. But everything's changed, hasn't it? Labor Day ruins summer. Push it back two weeks into September, and everyone would be happier. For that matter, put Memorial Day in the middle of May as well, and summer would go on and on.

Never happen. Ah well.

AIIIEEEE Dash-cam video of the day. Put up three days ago; six million hits.

Wow! Wonder what they're saying in the comments?

Ooooh. Burn. Next:

Well, if someone had to post that on a YouTube video about a rockslide while other people were having an argument about religion, he must be serious! Thanks, helpful internet dude!

ALTERNATE WORLD SOUNDTRACKS Here's a page devoted to Rejected Bond Movie Themes. The first one, the page's author notes, really sounds like a Bond theme. It's the stabby brass, I think.

MYSTERY SOLVEDThe Giant Concrete Arrows of the Southwest.

HEY YOU Your personal war against the second-person pronoun in headlines continues today. What's that, you say? You don't have a personal war against things like that? You're right. You don't. I do. Can't remember where I saw it, but I heard the perfect word to describe what irks me about this style:

Bossy.

How else to describe these examples? They popped up one after the other as I browsed:

Your Ancestors Didn't Sleep Like You

This Tedious Video Game Will Make You Hate Yourself — You Should Play It

You're Less Likely To Recycle Something If It Looks Like Trash

Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighter In One Video

There is nothing I want to know about Street Fighter. Another headline told me about five comedies on Netflix I haven't seen; I'd seen the first and didn't bother to click on the rest. ("Bernie.")

The other variant, less irritating but still pushing it, is the third-person plural. "We've been looking at ant intelligence the wrong way" says i09. So this has been an ongoing investigation with meetings and memos and I've totally missed all of them. What the hell is wrong with just saying "Scientists"?

Okay:

Don't see the Steranko. Also, doesn't evoke the show at all, which had Lee Meriwether walking around looking confused as she attempted to kill the landing party by touching them. Many more here, most of which seem related to the plot of the episode.

Or you could go read Lee Meriwether on Twitter.