The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

I am convinced that about half the stuff on the Internet these days is lists of things to do in quarantine. Fifteen recipes to try, twenty home-repair projects you can do in a day, the one hundred and thirty plants you absolutely need to squeeze into your yard while you have the free time to plant them. I'm sure you've read at least a couple.

As a journalist, I will let you in on a secret about these lists: they are found at the very bottom of the idea barrel. Sure, there are some well-thought-out list-articles that are worth reading, but for every one of those there's a dozen or so that...