This I like:

A blooming, bleeding ink blot at the very bottom the homepage for the LA Times—an ironic nod to the past and to the future. Which, for newspapers (and ink blots: when's the last time you saw an ink blot?), is death.

AND! Did you know: the Times was bombed into rubble in 1910 by two brothers who were mad about the paper's stance on unions? Twenty-one people died. The AFL (pre-CIO) hired Clarence Darrow to represent the young loons, who eventually pleaded guilty. Darrow apparently tried to bribe the jury:

His next notable case was the defense of the McNamara brothers, who were charged with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building during the bitter struggle over the open shop in Southern California (21 employees had died as a result of the explosion). Darrow perceived right away that the McNamara brothers were guilty, but he planned to celebrate them as heroes in the struggle of the workers against oppression and to have them acquitted by bribed jurors. When Darrow was seen standing on a street corner within view from the place where an associate of his handed over money to one of the jurors of the case, he was forced to convince them to change their plea to guilty and was able to plea bargain prison sentences instead of the death penalty. After representing the McNamaras, Darrow was charged with two counts of attempting to bribe jurors, although the brothers' guilty pleas meant that the jurors played no part in the case. After two very lengthy trials - in the first, defended by Earl Rogers, he was acquitted; in the second he struggled, defending himself, for a hung jury - he agreed never to practice law again in California and not be retried on the advice and help of his close friend John Jacobs in Greeley, Colorado.

Anyway: ink blot.