Readers typical visit here to read about obesity, food addiction, nutrition, and the like. Not this one, though.

They got Whitey.

I dunno how this will play across America or in the rest of the world, but in Boston, this is easily right up there with Bin Ladin's death.

I expect that Shelley Murphy and others in the Boston Globe newsroom are plotzing right now, writing the penultimate chapter in the magnum topic of their journalistic life.

Though if I were still at the paper, I wouldn't have written on this story, nor would I likely have been editing for a section that would have written on it, this is one of the days I'm missing my former life as an ink-stained wretch.

They got Whitey.