Continued carnage by pro executioners.

After yesterday's post about the The Executioner PRO Fly Swat Wasp Bug Mosquito Swatter Zapper, I see that 4 of you readers decided to step up and get your wasp-swatting done. And that's just those of you who bought your executioner's tools through the Althouse Amazon portal, where readers can shop and — in the muddled mind of Althouse — appear to be saying, we love you, even after you imposed the death sentence on the whole comments section in a draconian reaction to the infestation of wasps, mosquitoes, and bugs.

And if you'd like to add that you love my Lawnboy too, here's his recommended reel mower... and here's the fancy Fiskars mower he's contemplating. Meade assures me all the unusual looking parts are functional. It does have less of the classic look that's functional when your enterprise is making romanticized photographs.

"I remember my father's reel mower," I say. "It had a wooden handle."

Meade moves the headphones off his ears — he's listening to "Brokedown Palace" — and I repeat myself. He says: "Oh, yeah. I would love to have one of those."

Ebay? Nah. All the wooden-handled reel mowers seem to have the words "antique" and "vintage" attached to them, like you're just supposed to lean them up against the wall for decoration in your brokedown palace.

Fare you well, my honey, fare you well, my only true one.
All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone.

Cue to my exiled commenters to say Althouse is mourning the loss of all the commenters.

Going to leave this brokedown palace,
On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll.
Make myself a bed by the waterside,
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll.