The Duggars: What a goddamn mess.

The Duggars: What a goddamn mess.

MONDAY, MAY 18 This week of spilled oil, Irish triumph, and extraordinarily offensive religious hypocrisy kicked off in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where a young woman was enjoying her Sweet 16 birthday party until it was abruptly transformed into a Stinky Number Two party. “[The girl’s stepfather] was playing horseshoes in the backyard while others were swimming,” reported Fox 29 about the gathering. “About 40 people were there when it started raining—only it wasn’t raining.” The stepfather told Fox 29: “Out of nowhere, from the sky, comes a bunch of feces, and lands on her. It was brown, it was everywhere, it got on everything.” The likely source of the birthday brownout: one of the four planes flying over the area at the time of the errant sploosh. “The FAA tells Fox 29 that all airplanes are required to dispose of the waste at an airport. The FAA says they will investigate”…

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...