Streets as "place to pass through" vs "place to pass time" - a brilliant summation.

That's not good news for the U.S. Midwest, one of the world's great breadbaskets:

Push comes to shove, people do like public libraries.

Drawn by a girl in my town.

It seems to me that doing this would be a lot more fun than the big boat/mansion/vanity-project life of most superrich. It must be a blast to get up, have coffee, and say: "Let's see - what awesome thing should I help today?"

CleanTechnica notes that the country's excellent and expanding network of high-speed rail is a factor along with electric cars.
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/01/g...

The top draw is so full you can't close it, the bottom drawer echoes emptily when it is opened.

The best because it was the first (so far as I know) by a major broadcasting network. It was so unexpected. Especially for a buttoned-down group like the BBC.

The newsroom purge isn't complete yet, I guess. This looks like a fine package:

There is a subreddit that frequently has people showing pictures of cool sticks they've found - often sticks with a natural crosspiece so it looks like a sword. Often accompanied with something like "My wife doesn't think this is cool so I thought I'd share it here."