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Question of the Week

Passion or stability?

Mavis Drouk, emotional escrow officer

Believed to be near Harrisburg, PA

Stability. Passion is what people choose when they still believe a staircase can be made entirely of sparks. Stability may not sing outside your window, but it does remember where the insurance cards are.

Rufus Clenn, freelance thunder consultant

Last reported west of Tulsa, OK

Passion, obviously. Stability is just boredom wearing shoes with arch support. I want life to arrive late, smell faintly of lightning, and explain nothing until several lamps have been broken.

Nora Vell, deputy curator of small regrets

Possibly sheltering in Eugene, OR

Passion is useful for beginnings, stability for the paperwork afterward. I prefer both in moderation, which is another way of saying I would like to be ruined briefly and then driven home safely.

A solitary white city bus marked “WILMINGTON” faces the viewer on a cracked urban street flanked by decaying buildings and tangled utility lines. The scene is overcast and desolate. The bus appears functional, but the environment suggests abandonment—a quiet act of civic evasion, where transit persists while the civic body crumbles.

If you go, you can't come back.

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🚍The Bus Ticket Flim Flam: A Civic Evasion in Three Acts

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ðŸš Act I: Philadelphia’s Civic Evasion Strategy In a gesture of what might generously be called “urban compassion,” Philadelphia has spent approximately $270,000 since 2021… Read More

Satirical still life of one of the new Dummies books offerings.

The new Dummies books—because mediocrity evolves faster than common sense.

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Leaked Memo Reveals New Dummies Book Offerings, Vol. 2

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In the latest sign that the Dummies books franchise will never die–only mutate endlessly–John Wiley & Sons has reportedly greenlit another round of New Dummies… Read More

A surreal illustration of a giant turkey being roasted over an open fire in a whimsical outdoor setting, with exaggerated flames, cartoonish smoke, and oversized utensils—visually representing political satire through playful absurdity and exaggerated symbolism.

“America’s still cooking—just don’t ask who stuffed it.”

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Political Satire: A Roast for Every State

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From gold bars in New Jersey freezers to vape clouds in Colorado theaters, Political Satire: A Roast for Every State is your coast-to-coast catalog of… Read More

Grayscale editorial gravestone engraved with the word “Nuance,” staged in a solemn cemetery setting. The image evokes conceptual death and ritual satire, aligning with the theme of Today’s Obituaries.

Another casualty of complexity.

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🪦 Today’s Obituaries: The Death of Nuance

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Nuance, beloved by philosophers, editors, and the occasional sober tweet, departed this realm on October 28, 2025, following a prolonged battle with algorithmic compression and… Read More

A satirical image of Trump’s White House changes showing the presidential residence transformed into a golden, casino-like palace with lavish decorations and over-the-top patriotic symbols.

Veni, Vidi, Conspiravi — I came, I saw, I conspired.

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The Gilded Palace of Spin: President Trump’s White House Changes

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Historians are weeping into their archival gloves about President Donald J. Trump’s White House changes, which, they say, threaten to transform the historic residence into… Read More

A would-be guru in a sagging bathrobe perches wobbling on an upside-down laundry basket, hands frozen in a remote-control mudra while a barbecue rib smolders as incense—an unholy tableau of meditation secrets gone wrong.

"Inner peace, outer wobble … and now I smell like brisket."

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Meditation Secrets the Gurus Do Not Want You to Know

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You will need three things: a bathrobe with no belt, year-old flip-flops, and the remains of last weekend’s barbecue ribs. Those are all the meditation… Read More

Satirical image of Amazon Prime Afterlife™ onboarding, with Alectra offering reincarnation bundles and a sign for karmic returns. A visual parody of subscription metaphysics.

Welcome to Amazon Prime Afterlife™

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Amazon Prime Afterlife™: Subscription Metaphysics

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It is no longer Archie to die with an ironclad will, a curated celebration-of-life playlist, and a tasteful urn. The forward-looking pilgrim now prepares for… Read More

A surreal humorous illustration of a tabby cat’s brain chemistry at work — the cat in a tiny white lab coat and goggles perched on a woman’s head, holding a glowing pink oxytocin flask with sparkling mist and floating molecular bubbles swirling around them against a whimsical painterly background

“Behold… one more tweak to the human’s brain chemistry and she will order the deluxe Tesla scratching post.”

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Your Brain Is No Match for a Cat’s Brain Chemistry

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Somewhere deep inside every cat’s brain chemistry lurks a tiny lab-coated villain with a spray bottle of oxytocin and a pitch-black sense of humor, forever… Read More

The Pug Bus Breaking News

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Deliver It

⚡ Scholars at the Royal Institute for the Advancement of Obvious Things have concluded, after eleven years of exhaustive inquiry, that people who speak at great length in meetings do not thereby become more correct. The findings have been submitted to a committee for review.

⚡ It has been determined by authorities in several jurisdictions that the phrase "I just want to be honest with you" reliably precedes the portion of the conversation one would most prefer not to have. Legislation is pending.

⚡ The Bureau of Perpetual Reassessment has announced that this is not, in fact, the most divided the nation has ever been, a distinction that continues to belong to a prior era when the disagreements concerned rather more consequential matters and people occasionally died over them.

Adverse Effects

The following lines of prose cleverly arranged as poetry may induce brief clarity, misplaced certainty, and the sense that something has already been decided without your approval ...

By seventy you know which doors you walked past without opening,
can name the rooms you never entered,
hear the echoes anyway.

Read It All

By seventy you know which doors you walked past without opening,
can name the rooms you never entered,
hear the echoes anyway.

The years do not accuse.
They simply pile up like newspapers you meant to read,
each one carrying news that is no longer news.

You think: I should have said that differently.
I should have stayed. I should have gone.
The mind is efficient this way,
filing the same cases under the same wrong headings,
finding them again at 3 a.m. in perfect order.

What surprises is not the weight of it
but the patience —
how regret waits,
how it has nowhere else to be,
how it sits across from you at breakfast
and asks for nothing,
knowing you will offer it everything
on your own.

The body slows.
The catalog does not.
You carry the unlived lives
the way old houses carry
the smell of people who are gone —
not haunting exactly,
just present,
just there,
just refusing
the simple courtesy
of leaving.