I have a personal conspiracy theory that fatal car crashes and vehicle-related damage is rising sharply right now.

Here’s how it goes. The world is hard, and you can’t pay rent, gas costs too fucking much, and the war isn’t going how you wanted, and the summer is too damn hot — it’s not even summer yet. So you RAGE. You are a mote of anger protected by thousands of pounds of steel. You can’t hear anyone or even see most of them. You have disconnected from humanity.

And then, you hit a pothole…