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A Roberts Court in ancient Persia

Advice for apiarists

Faces

How Sinners lost me

Nouning the verb

Floyd Vivino (1951–2026)

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti

The House of Sandwiches

Propaganda, streaming

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Recently updated

ICE Out of Minnesota

Chicken or hen?

Recently updated

Training

Manolo Villaverde (1936–2026)

Dol

Young-woo likes dad jokes

A joke in a neo-traditional manner

Dryer January (no Wi-Fi)

Bringing out the crazy

The current occupant, sulking

MLK

Back to the land

Early Sunday Morning-ish

Back to analog

Take, take, take

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Hunger

Mediterranean hospitality and diet

Forty-three ways of looking at Sappho

Two takes on macOS Tahoe icons

Master and tyrant

Storage unit

On first hearing the Beatles’ “She Loves You”

Mary Miller: ICE isn’t going too far

Hutch

Markdown and world domination

Saturday night deer-er

In today’s news

NO ICE

An Atlantic crossword error

The carriage’s in the midst of all

Mental acuity

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Putting out a record

Not from The Onion

Domestic comedy

“The weight of non-zero”

Goodbye, Plato

Orwell again

A message to ICE

Wittgenstein’s Zippy?

A joke in the traditional manner

Cussing demanded

January 6, 2021, and others

“5 Easy Pieces”

Recently updated

Capture, or kidnapping?

“Soul Music at 25”

Loft dissonance

Dire warnings

Recently updated

Woof redux

Mental acuity

Today’s Saturday Stumper

What the actual

Uncle Felix’s potage Mongole

Christmas in Connecticut sardines

“To AI or Not to AI”

Vision Pro waning

McMar-a-Lago

Otroversion and me

Top ten 2025 OCA posts

A new Nancy

New Year’s Eve 1925

Stranger thing

HCR on 2025

From The Cookers

Farewell to Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy

Sluggo, zippy

Play money, real robbery

Why time limits for apps don’t work

Ending up with a .txt file

Apple EarPods discoveries

Hand cream

God and comics

Mental acuity

Twelve movies

Yamandu Costa coming to the States

A possible source for “asylums”

Woof

Today’s Saturday Stumper

William Shawn, Mongol user

Coffee and immortality

A strange thing

Christmas 1925

A Christmas song

Hi Mom

It’s a Little Compton life

Stan Newman’s Christmas Eve crossword

Questioning all of it

How to improve writing (no. 131)

Seasonal pronouns and commas

Recently updated

CECOT story online

Everything old is new again

Monkey mask

Something rotten in Denmark

Why hope?

“GAS COSTS LESS”

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Got oil?

“Every dog in the city”

“Zooks!”

Pine Valley Family Farm lines

“Badly cast”

A lost cause

Joyce and Yeats?

Musgrave 2025 Holiday Gift Set (pencils)

Twelve movies

Antivenom

There is no bottom

A visit to Chester Ludlow

Recently updated

“Things can happen”

Another unattended carriage

Helpers

Deli King, i.m.

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Parts and wholes

Adam Kinzinger on decline

Tempo De Zoot Suit Melancholia

“Cheese after”

Connie Converse, Mongol user

Dasani on Toast

Keystone Kash, or, Is our AI learning?

Undermining credibility

Times New Roman again

Split screen

Word of the day: keister

Google Search Console news

Recently updated

A puzzle (with a prize)

A 2026 calendar, free

Mystery sign, mystery location

On Willa Cather’s birthday

HCR on the NSS

Today’s Saturday Stumper

“Imbibing madness”

Steve Cropper (1941–2025)

From the gaming table

New directions in spam

Cut ear, long pipe

Caveat emptor (Penguin)

Apple Dictation fails

Italics and capitals

Four-dimensional chess

NBC, true to form

Mental acuity

Wehner and Capehart

I do not fear Malört

A joke in the traditional manner

Recently updated

At a loss in a bistro

Recently updated

Kleptocracy on the march

No turkey

Today’s HCR

Today’s Saturday Stumper template

“Early blogger energy”

“Unnoticed by the average eye”

Thanksgiving 1925

Twelve movies

Towne Branch subdivision

Origin of an idiom: “That takes the cake”

Thinking about the button

Today’s xkcd : “Fifteen Years”

A song for today

An album against AI

Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

Burt Meyer (1926–2025)

Woodstock’s into

Today’s Saturday Stumper

In the typewriter district

Class discussion, my 2¢

AI and answers

Typewriter repairers in the news

Backblaze, anyone?

What’s news

Recently updated

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” &c.

Joe Brainard’s “C” comics

Ethan Iverson’s piano picks

Mental acuity

Some subtle Schitt

Omit needless experience

Apple and surveillance

“Things happen”

Noirvember Scavenger Hunt

Recently updated

Oxford comma T-shirt

Recently updated

A house is not a home

Today’s Saturday Stumper

ICE in one Chicago neighborhood

Hidden stained glass

Mongol sighting

Wolf tooth potato

Mental acuity

Recently updated

A source for Molly Drake

Caper sizes

No, they’re not

At work in a tower

Mental acuity

How to improve writing (no.130)

G.P.A.-holes

How to improve writing (no.129)

Veterans Day

Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs

Twelve movies

Recently updated

Il neige

About last night

How to pronounce lapis lazuli

A mystery cafeteria

“Johnny Hodges!”

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Recently updated

Lost and found

Archive.today endangered

Why the first Tuesday

Decline

Live Laugh LOSE

Folder Quick Look

A caution for updating macOS

“Twenty dollars of unleaded, please?”

One more result

About last night

Recently updated

Trash and Asch

Hard times

Stop sanewashing, dammit

Wallace Shawn’s roles

Got food?

Halloween at Mar-a-Lago

“A long winter”

Eeek and sheesh

Two guys in Brooklyn

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Halloween recap

Bob Dylan’s Nobel essay (again)

Orange pumpkin art

Domestic comedy

Sludge

Words of the year

A would-be crash blossom

An AI blog comment?

An AI restaurant response

Jack DeJohnette (1942–2025)

Nancy milk

Word of the day: m’onderstanding

A billboard in Alton

Mental acuity

IWTYO, Erie Canal edition

Honeycrisp apples, then and now

June Lockhart (1925–2025)

Bonwit Teller

Today’s Saturday Stumper

The age of noir

A puzzle in signage

Mental acuity

MSNBC, sheesh

From the side of a carton

COLD BREWSKI’S

Looking around

Pencil tributes

Language devolving

The hand

Never no bottom

Unluckies

Domestic comedy

Look out, Mary!

David Frum on Stefan Zweig

Mel Brooks on John Candy

Twelve movies

No Kings, NYT

I like this advice

In the Golf Ball District

Nancy, NO ICE

No Kings Day in east-central Illinois

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Mental acuity

Sock it to ’em, JB

There are signs and then there are signs

Olivia Jaimes’s final thoughts about Nancy

No Kings Day coming

Dinner and a show

Adam Kinzinger on that GOP group chat

A fellow graduate of P.S. 131

Words and other words

“Songs in the Park”

From a Liquid to a solid

Necking

Single malt what?

A joke in a neo-traditional manner

A building and an arch

“My hair!”

Great Lives : Derek Bailey

King Records documentary

Orwell: 2+2=5

HCR on this day

Chock full o’Signs

Diane Keaton (1946–2025)

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Alcove, niche, nook

Guitar blossoms

The Nobel Peace Prize

Off to the engine factory

“Antifa” then and now

A telephone alcove or nook

No thanks, I’m good

Pam Bondi’s notes

Mental acuity

Mystery actor

Let there be at least some light

Thank you, Governor Pritzker

Billie Holiday at Storyville

MAGA no more

Failing to meet the moment

VDP on Brian Wilson

Orange

Current events

Kimmy goes back in time!

My daughter’s humormeter

Today’s Saturday Stumper

To all electric-scooter operators

Literalists and kleptomaniacs

Pronoun watch

Fowler and The New Yorker

A friend in the art

In the can

New directions in supplies

Unhinged, unwell

Pocket notebook sighting

Notebooks of a doppelgänger

Not well (stairs)

A line from Connie Converse

Forty-one

Atlantic oops

Med beds and the Middle Ages

Chick-fil-A vs. fall

More Mel Taub puzzles

Hi and Lois watch

They may not look like ballet dancers

Two pages

Today’s Saturday Stumper

Guitar heroines

Pocket notebook sighting