I have uncovered evidence of the stupidest editorial planning meeting since paper was invented. It clearly happened at the offices of Bethesda magazine. The March/April issue is “The Parenting Issue.” The cover story is about two local teenagers who committed suicide.

The cover reads, “Parents’ Worst Nightmare: [Two] local teenagers took their own lives. For the first time, their parents talk about what happened — and the warning signs they missed.”

So let me get this straight. This morose, tragic cover, with black rose and everything, is supposed to get me, a parent of three, including two teens, to pick this magazine up in the grocery store line (in the middle of a deepening recession, no less)? Yeah, that’s the parenting issue every parent wants to read right now.

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