Most Stranger staff, myself included, have taken tours of duty shitting on the Seattle Times opinion section. It's not hard to find material there. Last year, the Seattle Times editorial board opposed the expansion of light rail because it would take too long. In June, Charles called out Nicole Brodeur's writing for whites in Columbia City. In July, Rich Smith took on the "virgins in sensible shoes" who protested paying a 0.1 percent sales tax to support vital arts and science programming for kids. And last month, Heidi described the Times' dangerous bullshit against decriminalizing homelessness.

Starting October 9, a new editorial writer will start working at the Times. And while it's early to call this, she may make it harder for Stranger writers to shit on the editorial section.

Melissa Santos is a political reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune. She's good. She wrote this story about women raising babies from inside prison. She went on a Twitter rant about an article that instructed people on how to make their own crackers. She's 31 and graduated from the University of Washington in 2007. I have met her at press conferences and journalism events and actually like her?

Anyway, I don't know how to feel about this. If she makes the editorial section better, that would be good for the world but also bad for the traffic on our Seattle Times editorial-bashing posts. If she makes it worse, we will greet a new enemy. A creepy hello from Stranger staff, Melissa. Hello.