A Letter from the Editor
As you may or may not know, ReadMe has been around since the dawn of time. We’re so old, in fact, that for our first volumes we were called TellMe. We orated about the Big Bang, the age of the dinosaurs, and the evolution of humanity. Once we could write, we reported on events like the flood (remember reading about Noah? We covered that.) and the fall of the Roman Empire. Eventually we decided that our purpose was to bring humor to the saddest place in the world, and once CMU was founded, we knew we’d found our forever home. We recently took a dig through our archives, and found some articles we’d written long ago, featuring headlines like “Kids these days are lazier than ever” (an oped written in 1352) and "What do you mean, we have to pay people," (a complaint written in 1978). As it stands, our organization has decided to share all the material we've devised with the rest of you, in order of date published, give or take. If you've ever wondered what we thought about the birth of Jesus, the invention of the printing press, or the 1984 American Presidential Election, then you've come to the right place. Without further ado....