"Feelin' 7-UP, I'm feelin' 7-UP! Sharin' smiles, sharin' smiles, I'm feelin' 7-UP!"

Wait until they start talking about thorium reactors. That's when you may have to either tap the sign at the front of the bus or just tell them to settle down.

I love it, except for the placement of the plates in front of the books. Books yearn to be free, to tempt you to browse and pick them up without having to worry about moving a big, fragile porcelain plate out of the way just to see them.

If your kids are playing Minecraft on PC's and don't need cross-platform support to play with others who are on Switch or Xbox, you can leave Microsoft entirely behind and just run the Java version from Mojang at www.minecraft.net/en-us/download. It also has a far bigger mod community.

Be not afraid!

Lovely! Which is better to support local bees?

Is there a source of Midwest wildflower seed bombs?

"YouTubeTV has a base plan of $82.99 per month". Wait. . . didn't people cut the cable cord years ago for less than that?

Working my way down clipboard checklist while wearing a lab coat, looking at the cat.
"Who is the goodest kitty?"
"Who is the fluffiest kitty?"
"Who is the goodest, fluffiest kitty . . . ?"

I'm Commodus. My reign ended the Pax Romana, the most peaceful period of the Roman Empire, but saw the completion of the Cloaca Maxima. Sewage systems and personalist deity cults are sexy.

Wut . . . ?

Sure, if you buy a 19th Century farmhouse in Vermont or a Haussmann-era stone pile in central Paris, you walk into it knowing that you'll be paying tens of thousands of dollars per year in maintenance. But for new construction? What, do they enthuse about getting splinters as 'authenticity' too?

It's not a free article if it comes at the cost of email marketing that you have to unsubscribe from later.

This is a stunning self-inflicted wound by the Westside community, forgoing millions of dollars of infrastructure improvements along Washington and the development of residential and retail around what would have been lively transit hubs. Blue-line-served airport parking, hotels, dining - all gone.

It's true that the roundabouts in Carmel take up more land than traffic lights, and their design prioritizes cars first. The trade-offs are that they have fewer injury crashes and reduced emissions from cars idling at red lights. They should be designed for peds and bikes, like this Dutch one: