But is it more embarrassing than the kid who dabbed?

The look on his face as he’s walking away tells me he just won that $20 dare from his friends.

Money is fungible. Even if it isn’t specifically earmarked for potholes, when it goes away then money to replace it has to come from *somewhere*. Deferring maintenance on infrastructure is a long-standing tactic for budget-crunched governments.

I’m sure that was part of the agreement with each city..

It is approved. Graffiti by definition is not approved.

It was Ben Franklin, not Lincoln. He also said, “If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

Yeah the entire showing screamed Destiny, somehow with even less personality.

Call me a pessimist, but this looks like a killer game...as in, it will kill Bioware.

“Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”
-Abraham Lincoln

Because opposition to authoritarian regimes is a conservative thing. Also, the sky is green with purple polka dots and cakes eat people, because apparently I woke up in an parallel universe.

This. It’s a common SEO strategy. Create web pages and 400 to 600 word articles based on key search terms and exact-match queries. Then ride the wave as traffic spikes from curious searchers. As a writer, I’ve always viewed it (and being asked to do it) like throwing plastic straws in the sea. It’s internet pollution.

I bet they type in certain words and it generates a bunch of optimized searches.

SEO bro.

SEO. The idea is to hit every ground in case people start googling about him.

I suspected they are generated untouched by human hand.

It is a bunch of nets, and they are fishing for readers.

It’s a tactic to get as many clicks as possible. When people hear the news of his passing some will then begin to wonder about the people in his life and Google them. Notice how the headlines read like Google searches? If they can put an article out for each person in his life they can maximize the number of distinct…

Search engine optimization. His death, which everyone will be Googling, the words “who is,” which everyone will be Googling, and something no one else will have, because it is irrelevant.

SEO.