There's No Rooster Today
I'm taking a well-earned vacation day, and not for the reason you might think!
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When I set out to create The Rooster, my one guiding light was that I would never lie to the folks that put rubies in my pocket in exchange for poorly edited weekday dispatches that arrived in their mailbox at 4:59 a.m.
Usually when I write something like this, I am blind…