Domestic Affairs · By Design
Linen bedding spans a twelvefold price range for one fiber. We priced the whole bed three ways, did the per-night arithmetic, and checked what the money actually buys.
By Hollis Carver
Domestic Affairs
Portland General Electric's residential customers used 20% less electricity in 2024 than in 2000 and paid 141% more for it. The appliances worked. The savings were collected by the unit price.
By Hollis Carver
Domestic Affairs
The low-battery chirp at three in the morning is not coincidence and not malice. It is physics: a marginal battery, a falling temperature, and a threshold crossed while you sleep.
By M. Plumb
The Parlour
Eight rulings graded against the register: the head shot is the best-supported rule on either seasonal page, nobody has ever agreed on the cause, and the single most confidently known fact about the zombie arrives seventeen years after the founding film in a picture that was joking.
By Casimir Vane
Domestic Affairs
The musty note in the bathroom is not a nuisance to mask. It is an early-warning chemical signal, and your nose is absurdly good at reading it.
By Vera Stipple
The Kitchen Desk
Build a week of grab-and-go snacks yourself on Sunday, once you know how long each piece actually keeps.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
It is not a hygiene failure. It is a five-to-ten-year putty replacement that shipped with the sink and was never written down.
By Vera Stipple
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Eight words are hidden in the grid below. Find them. They are in there. We checked.
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
