The Rest of You Can Run, the Duck Stays

Hello, everyone. My name is Wilbur Duck, and I am the publisher and editor of The End Days Picayune and Gazette.

For many years, I plied my trade as reporter and editor for a variety of small-town newspapers, like the Wyalusing Rocket, the Granite Junction Enquirer, and the Tuscaloosa Democrat and Republican.

I didn't win any Pulitzer Prizes, but I was an honest journalist, working with the facts, and I wasn't ever run out town either.

I retired about ten years ago.  At least that was the plan.  Plans change.

You know, during that time, I've seen many a small town newspaper disappear. I think that is a loss to any community; I'm not so sure that social media has exactly filled the gap. Well, it may be filling some part of the gap, but there's already enough manure out there.  Think about it- if old Ben Stiles was always a bullshitter and a liar, do you think that he's reformed and posting truth and honesty on social media?

You get my point.

In times like this- war, pandemic, a republican presidency- the truth is critical to the continuing functions of a democracy.  And it's a bit hard to come by.

The pandemic times are hard enough to push me to do something other than fish and play with the grandkids. Something I know how to do.

So here you have The End Days Picayune and Gazette.  A little bit of truth, a few tall tales, a recipe or two, and a heaping portion of entertainment- a slice of life while we shelter in place for the foreseeable future. I've got a whole collection of writers and columnists sitting in the dark in front of their keyboards, ready to write like there's no tomorrow for all you readers out there in vacuum-land.

Remember- I'm not responsible for what they write, but I'll defend to the very last hair on our president's tiny head their right to say it.  And your right not to read it.

Let's have at it, folks- Welcome to The End Times...

Editorially, Wilbur Duck