All the hanging chads turned into anthrax spores.
What i dont understand is why the photo editor had the letter...was it addressed to him? wouldn't the person it was addressed to be the one to open it...unless it had a picture in it.
I just had to post and say that Matt Labash writes like a dream. This article was informative, amusing, reflective, well-constructed, and simply a joy to read. Labash seems to be a born story-teller, the sort who could make a bicycle assembly manual fascinating to read.
In a world full of the work of clumsy, brain-dead hack "journalists", I give this article five gold stars.