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Humor writing that’s less disappointing than it sounds, from the literal one and only Paul Kafasis

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October 2026

  1. Leaving ESPN
  2. Holiday in Cambodia
  3. Muse’s Flawed Raison D’etre
  4. Second Prize Is a Mandatory Cybersecurity Class
  5. Please Give Sponge Their Guitars Back
  6. The Goliath Expedition
  7. Two Bedrooms, Quiet Neighbors
  8. Beige, Flavorless Paste
  9. Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Is No More
  10. Give Them Back to the Customer
  11. The Wrong Portland
  12. Old-School Proprietors of Yesterday’s Tech
  13. A Celestial Firework
  14. I Hope They Got an A
  15. Amazon Is Creeping on Us All
  16. Mike Tomlin Has Been Minecrafting
  17. Booking Dot Redundant
  18. Fighting Birds With Birds
  19. The Flying Train
  20. Who’s Ready for Some Scheduled Laughs?
  21. Screaming Birds

September 2026

  1. The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
  2. It’s No One’s Favorite Beagle, Snorpy
  3. Krampus Addresses the Board
  4. Truth in Movie Titling
  5. I Doubt He Has the Data to Back That Up
  6. The Latest on Regulating Social Media
  7. I Fought the T
  8. She’s Probably Had Better Birthdays
  9. Doomed Houses
  10. An Appreciation for Craft
  11. Money Quotes: September 2026 Edition
  12. Japanese Parking Pockets
  13. Braden’s Infinite Tour of Italy
  14. 25 Years of Flags
  15. Cyborg Cockroach Paramedics
  16. We Can See Everything
  17. Hello There, Bears
  18. Go Ahead On, Old Man
  19. Storrowings in 2026
  20. Get Educated While Watching 22% of a Game
  21. Uncensored Fat Marmot Content
  22. Making Friends and Outs

August 2026

  1. A Tiny Car for No One
  2. Automated Enforcement Technologies May Be the Least Bad Option
  3. Dolly Parton was the Book Lady
  4. Someday, Our Wretched Flag May Be Replaced
  5. Staying Humble
  6. The Wrong Kind of American
  7. We Need More From the Media
  8. The $999,999 Limit
  9. Hummingbird Moths
  10. Oh, Massachusetts, No
  11. Subsidized Internet for Vacant Homes
  12. Betting on the Wedding
  13. And the Daytime Emmy Goes to…John Oliver’s Wig!
  14. Three Stellar Race Photos
  15. Sunfish Smashing
  16. Grenoble’s War on Visual Pollution
  17. The Nicest Man in New York
  18. The Ultimate Advertising Machine
  19. Don’t Build a Snow Room
  20. Is “Zero” a Dose?
  21. The Smudge Drone

July 2026

  1. Trust No One
  2. D–, Vile Harassment, but Solid Financial Outcome
  3. A Missing Underscore
  4. Perhaps We Should Just Shut It All Down
  5. No Thants
  6. Mitch McConnell’s Legacy
  7. Just Another Manic Mortgage
  8. An Assortment of Bad Emails
  9. 3:42.66
  10. What Luck
  11. A Tiny Baby in a Plastic Bath Full of Water
  12. The IKEA Marathon
  13. Year-Round Bad Berries
  14. Annoying via Allogrooming
  15. Ciao to a Craven Politician
  16. Don’t Date Robots!
  17. CTC Iced Coffee
  18. Good Money After Bad Marriages
  19. Sandler With the Assist
  20. Extremely Late Fireworks
  21. Swarms of Scuba Cockroaches
  22. Morally Reprehensible Gambling
  23. The Possible End of Deferred Contracts

June 2026

  1. Fireworks Are Not an Inalienable Right
  2. Bigger Is Not Better
  3. The Dirt That Refused to Die
  4. $100 a Minute
  5. Extreme Wealth Is a Sickness
  6. Rest in Peace, Martha Avila
  7. Excellence, Redefined
  8. Doll Head Defeat Devices
  9. Thirsty Scots
  10. Redacted Brands
  11. Fancy Toilets and Crucial A.I. Infrastructure
  12. Grossly Manipulative
  13. The Truth About the Poached Eggs Murder
  14. More Frank Talk
  15. More Fake Legal Citations
  16. New Halls Encouragements Just Dropped
  17. Thousands of Dollars of Misdirected Food
  18. Problems the Pope Missed
  19. Adopt-A-Bridge
  20. Cursed Bread
  21. Tell Us How You Really Feel, Scott
  22. Not a Good Pitch

May 2026

  1. It’s Not Looking Good
  2. Please Reclaim Your Nightmare Fuel
  3. Joe Mazzulla Wins a Stupid Award
  4. Joey Chestnut Will Defend His Title While on Probation
  5. Eat More Greens
  6. Kars 4 Near-Adults To Go To Israel
  7. Farewell to Stephen Colbert
  8. “Wade Mode” Is Not “Swim Mode”
  9. Goodhart’s Law in Action
  10. He Built This City
  11. Black & White Snacks
  12. Quick and Creepy
  13. The Septuagenarian Resident
  14. At Least AC/DC Would Be Proud
  15. Happy Mother’s Lengths of Time
  16. One Hell of a Pop Quiz
  17. Popes — They’re Just Like Us!
  18. Divorce Registries
  19. Foiling Online Age Checks
  20. Oracle Park’s Bogus 9-9-9 Challenge Has Disappeared
  21. A Very Poor Trade

April 2026

  1. Renea Gamble Prevails
  2. Pam From Wenatchee Made a Hologram
  3. The Bartered Vasectomy
  4. Sub-Two Sabastian Sawe
  5. A Very Fusilli Plan
  6. Dropping in Unannounced
  7. Sectional 42
  8. We’ve Got to Hang Our Hats on Something
  9. Snagged on a Giant C
  10. Vehicles Crushed by Snow
  11. The Magawa Monument Is Made of Stone
  12. Pivoting From Shoes to Artificial Intelligence
  13. Stay in Your Lane, Paperless Post
  14. A Massive Magawa
  15. Firefighters on Electric Motorcycles
  16. The Half-Mile Escalator
  17. Bobbi Gibb Kicks Ass
  18. Every Day Is an Exhausting New Hell
  19. A Windy Day With the White Clouds Flying
  20. Molly Went for a Helicopter Ride

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