A few more pics of Sterling’s glorious Carnegie Library. (Plus pics of the more recent children’s library in the comments.)

Irrationally mad at whatever font the Packers are using for jersey numbers today.

Ah, yes. The dream of a crosstown World Series was perhaps a tick unrealistic.

What'd I miss?

I haven't! Will investigate...

I want to read more PKD, but pls recommend something a liiiiiiiitle less wackadoo than "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch."

*He's

God's still on your side, Pale Hose, but he's not a miracle worker.

There's a *New* Mexico?

I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

Would love to see Regnery or some similarly janky conservative publisher put out a faux-Woodward book called "Eight Victories," just so I could see the kind of sophistry MAGA lickspittles would come up with.

alt text: the bench reads, "The way of the transgressor is hard."

A "mourning bench" Grant Wood helped high-school students design for placement outside the principal's office.

Solvej Balle for the threepeat in '27.

It isn't even really a contest.

The Empire Strikes Backrooms

my honest feeling is that if you have a problem with executions being publicly televised then you should have a problem with them happening at all.