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Offense of the Month
Outrages from All Over: A Semi-Annual Compendium, Part II
Offenses of the Month, August–December
August
Comparative Pain
By now it’s an old story. The Protagonist says the bad word aloud in a crowd. He follows it up with “oh no, I can’t believe I just said that. That’s not really me.” He then resigns his job. Everyone else clucks “how horrible what he did” and concludes “stout fellow, that one, resigning for the good of the team.”
This particular version of the tale centers on 50-year-old Cale Gundy, […]
