Real life is always better than fiction. You can’t make stuff up that’s better than what happens for real.

Example: the Netflix series Tiger King. Come on now. Just — wow. As an aside, if Carole Baskin doesn’t already have the best legal representation, someone ought to be advising her that, maybe, just maybe, this series might well bring the federal authorities around to look into her many and varied business and personal affairs.

Example: the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, asking Congress for $200 million, per reports in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Come on now. Just — what in the world can the USOPC be thinking?