What are you waiting for? It’s time to learn about your future.

One reason August might not be so bad: With so many people out of town, it’s a lot easier to get a reservation and a decent table.

Perhaps Dan Zak’s “digression” last week was less whimsy and more warning. Because the Associated Press today has a story about a Virginia woman catching the largest freshwater drum in the state’s recorded history.

August is a month. Get over it. August is one of 12 subdivisions of the calendar, though it reserves for itself especial damnation.