Hot Take: Kafka's 'isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers' is an allegory about US taxpayers and the IRS.

I told Portland Bureau of Transportation to make it a tourney. Instead, Willamette Week is already declaring a winner: wweek.com/news/2024/04/0…

Our kidmobile was an 2004 Toyota Sienna. If I took out the back seats I could fit 4'x8' sheets of drywall or plywood. My suburban dadmobile was a way better truck than this escapee from Minecraft.

88 days off added time. Those players must be exhausted.

No 64-pothole tournament bracket? No Sweet Sixteen of Sinkholes? Definitely an opportunity missed. koin.com/news/portland/…

The storm in January knocked out our power for 4 days, and our internet for 13. I have neighbors with burst pipes and flooding, and one with a tree on their house. Just another minor climate-change related disaster. I'm sure there will be more to come.

Putting aside the chopperful of mess that's in the rest of this tweet, 'BongBong' has just entered my top 10 list of best cat names.

Absolutely. I would rather not have my car spying on me. nytimes.com/2023/12/31/tec…

Circa 2009 John is remarkably similar to 2024 John 👇

As an editor, my greatest fear is I will be on my deathbed and realize that somewhere there is an open quote I didn't close.

WMF is dismayed at a proposal to demolish the urban forest of Canada’s Ontario Place. In 2020, we named this Toronto landmark to the World Monuments Watch out of a belief that it was a modernist icon deserving of protection. Read our statement: shorturl.at/psMY5

The world is just filled with bad news these days.

Political cartoon from Australia (I'm pretty sure)

Entertainment PSA: If you haven't watched Slow Horses, it's time. Seasons 1 & 2 were excellent ... so far, season 3 is even better.

Attention Portland people! You could go do a thing. (My son is helping said thing happen.)

Once in a while a meme is worth reposting:

Interesting bit of editorializing on the library website (the book is 'The Plotters' by Ŏn-su Kim)

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

What was the final length of Kevin McCarthy's tenure as Speaker, measured in Scaramuccis?