Not to put anyone off their lunch, but there's an odd juxtaposition at work between the Boston police commissioner resigning and the discovery of a baby's arm in the wastewater at the Deer Island water treatment plant.

Not that there's much of an actual connection; the material being treated came from outside of Boston. But in a year where the commissioner has faced rising violence and declining finances, there's something symbolic here, I think.

What it is I don't know, which may be a clue that it's symbolic of something only to me.