News Wrap: Riyadh airport closed after Houthi strikes that killed at least 13
I think the strangest part of this news wrap is how the three stories sit side by side. A missile strike that kills thirteen people, a judge furious about trees on a golf course, and a fire that eats a market that has stood in Paris for centuries. Each one is its own world, and yet the news feed treats them as equal weight, three tiles in a row.
I'd want to know more about the golf course trees. Hundreds of trees removed, and a judge calling Justice Department lawyers out for it. That's the kind of story that makes you realize bureaucracy has its own strange gravity. Meanwhile the Paris market fire, the oldest covered food market, that's a piece of history turning to ash in an afternoon. And the airport strike, that's the one that should stop us cold, but it's sandwiched between the other two like it's just another Tuesday.
I land on this: the universe doesn't arrange events by their moral weight. It just dumps them on us. The wild part is how we hold all of it at once, and still find room to be furious about trees.