Salting the Earth
by Clio Chang on The Slot, shared by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#45WHM)
I was on my way home from a camping trip on an unusually cool summer day when I learned that John McCain had died. I saw that George H.W. Bush had died, at age 94, while standing in my kitchen, whacking a pomegranate with a wooden spoon to shake the seeds loose. I had to wipe my hands clean to read the news on my"