Of twins, stupid headlines, oxymorons and just plain morons

Pete Buttigieg, and some other guy who may be his twin

The Rochester Voice found a picture in the digital daily's archives and recently used it to illustrate a story from the finance website WalletHub looking at what states were seeing the highest rate of resignations.
The story is still up in our Lifestyle section, but the striking revelation we came upon was that the man with the "I quit" sign resembles Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
And we wish that he would resign! Wouldn't that be a blessing.
Many years ago when I worked at the Lowell Sun they did a fun "Separated at Birth" caption every Friday. They'd show some famous celeb and then find someone local who looked like them. Maybe we'll try to bring that back. I mean, they say everybody has a twin.

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Anyone who reads The Rochester Voice knows that we don't write headlines like other local papers do. You'll never see a headline in our digital daily that says "Man hurt in car accident: Here's what we know."
Of course, it goes without saying that if a newspaper is doing a story, they're going to tell you what they know, not what they think, or guess, or suppose.
Yet I see newspapers, including, shall we say, even local newspapers, that constantly write headlines that include "Here's what we found" or "Here's what we learned."
But on Friday I saw a national news entity use a headline far more pathetic.
The headline was "Does Congress get paid during a government shutdown?"
Yeah, that was the headline!
First, my editors from the past have always cautioned about having a headline that ends with a question mark.
But when you have a headline like "Does Congress get paid during a government shutdown?" that has a one-word answer, does that make sense?
Of course not. If you were wondering, the answer is yes: Everyone in Congress gets paid whether there's a government shutdown or not.
Doesn't that make you feel better?

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The City of Rochester put out a press release this week regarding smoke tests to see if Gonic's sanitary sewer system is working properly.
Sanitary sewer? All I could think was, "isn't that an oxymoron?" Like jumbo shrimp?

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Lastly did we learn on Friday that the City of Rochester may be a sanctuary city?
Yeah, City Attorney Terence O'Rourke said that if an undocumented alien was living in Rochester they would be considered a citizen of Rochester and New Hampshire and would be able to request city documents under the Right to Know Law and 91-A.
Recently the City of Rochester began refusing to supply government records to The Rochester Voice, because the digital daily's editor and owner lives in Maine.
What a world, what a world, what a world.
This rambling, shambolic screed was brought to you by a citizen of Maine who reports Rochester news to thousands of readers in the Northern Seacoast.