Easy Pickings.

Easy Pickings.

MONDAY, JULY 13 This week of well-armed lunatics, suspect suicide, and presidential denunciations of Bill Cosby kicked off in the great Northwest, where this morning three men entered a busy Fred Meyer store in Marysville, Washington, and stole a fully loaded ATM. Details on the swiped-in-broad-daylight cash machine and the men who did the swiping comes from Marysville police: “They had a dolly and put [the ATM] up on the dolly, wheeled it out of the store, loaded it into a pickup truck, and drove off,” Marysville police commander Robb Lamoureux told Everett’s Daily Herald, which reports the getaway truck was found abandoned this afternoon, while the men and their hot ATM remain at large.

TUESDAY, JULY 14 In much worse news, the week continued with a fresh name to add to the list of black Americans whose arrests were followed by sudden death: Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old civil-rights advocate who recently moved to Texas from the Midwest after landing a job at Prairie View A&M University…

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...