What is this? The Sin Bin is The Valley Signal’s advice column for people who don’t deserve it. The sin bin is the penalty box, where you go when you’ve screwed up. You write in with the mess you’ve made of your life, or your neighbor’s, and Sully tells you what you already know but you’re too soft to admit. No soft problems. No participation trophies. No closure. Every story has a pylon, the useless person standing there while the play moves around them. If you can’t spot yours, it’s you. Keep it short or get benched, and send it to [email protected].
Dear Sully,
A reader wrote in to The Valley Signal to accuse the paper of violating journalistic standards because some factual public-record pieces carry a “Signal Staff” byline instead of an individual named author.