I almost feel bad for the Phillies. But the good guys won.

Growing old is tailor-made for denial, writes columnist Danny Westneat. Who doesn't want to believe you've still got it? But some past politicians have faced up to the existential question of how old is too old.

Democrats have found themselves in the worst state possible. And I'm not talking about Texas or Florida. I'm talking about the state of denial. Nobody in their right mind is going to vote for Joe Biden. I hope Dems have a plan in place for when Donald Trump is elected.

This week in @methownews:

I asked ChatGPT to review "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" as @NewYorker critic Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow. >> '"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" is not just a bad film; it is ... a black hole of talent and taste from which not even the faintest glimmer of merit can escape.'

The last rock song to hit No. 1 happened in 2001. I, as a Gen-Xer who transitioned through Led Zeppelin, Journey and Nirvana, have been wondering ever since why rock 'n' roll died. This article gives the answer.

Long time no post, but I thought I would alert any journalists who follow me that a good-paying enterprise reporter job is available at my place of work, in beautiful Bellingham WA. Check it out:

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

"Our attention spans have been chopped up and commodified, sold off piecemeal to platforms and algorithms. We’re too busy, too lazy, too preoccupied to lose ourselves in books."

Some ideas for keeping for-profit newspapers alive—with a critical eye on The @seattletimes: https://t.co/5B2cchI1g1 via @alley_post

I read Martin Amis’ “London Fields” in 1995. I don’t remember, but I must have wandered into it in a used bookstore. A fortunate thing, because it’s still the best novel I’ve ever read.

Kraken fans started to believe after Round One, when the underdogs dispatched the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Colorado Avalanche, in Game 7 of a seven-game series. https://t.co/QC03AosnML

This gets at why I find the world so jarring anymore. The digital generation defines culture as “the volume of outrage or the success of a joke,” while I prefer a more traditional view: “Culture is beauty and intelligence.”

An exquisite love letter to a neighborhood only the locals truly know, and a eulogy to a restaurant that helped define it: Hollywood’s Off Vine

Written by @Ralph_Schwartz and photographed by @haileyjhoffman, Beyond Bars is a collaboration with @kmre1023 Community Radio, with help from @WhatcomCC student Marina Sanders and @WWU students Jenelle Baumbach, Halle Jordan and Kendall Welch. (5/6)

BREAKING: I saw a snowflake. #wawx

“If Twitter can get by for three months on a fraction of its staff, how many of those folks were actually necessary?”

Another story about densifying neighborhoods that asks, affordability or profitability?

Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds

Plaschke: Scoring record clinches it. LeBron James, not Michael Jordan, is basketball’s GOAT