September 19: The Planet’s Annual Dress Rehearsal for Irony and Disaster
September 19: The Day the Planet Pretended to Be Shocked September 19 rolls around every year with the reliability of a monsoon and the moral clarity of a hedge fund manager. It is the calendar’s version of a raised eyebrow—never quite the headline, always the punchline. Yet from Tokyo’s fluorescent boardrooms to the dust-blown cafés…