Housing director confirms administration ‘working on’ 50-year mortgage after Trump hint

Yeah, I’m going to pass on that. It’s hard to imagine any lower monthly payment being worth the downright Biblical amount of interest you’d end up paying. Not to mention the fact that all of a sudden age would be a factor and you’d quite literally be signing your entire life away, maybe even your kids. It doesn’t do anything to deal with the price of homes, it just makes it a multi-generational project. Not good

The true story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years after a tragic shipwreck

Brace yourselves, you’re going to hear a lot of Gordon Lightfoot. That song’s a bone to be chewed

I’m trying something a little different, sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 4: World Waits for Answers on Comet Heidemann

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

The Last Four Years Ch. 3 | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 | The Last Four Years Ch. 1

Also Worth A Look…

• Delta Passenger Trapped by ‘Human Biohazard’ Seatmate Who Pooped His Pants - Well that’s basically the nightmare to end all nightmares. Luckily everybody’s flight is getting cancelled these days

• What to do if your flight gets canceled because of the government shutdown - Might just want to go ahead and rent a car

• Coffee may protect against irregular heartbeats - Is there anything it can’t do?

• Tech billionaires back startup probing gene-edited ‘designer babies’ despite US ban: report - Worked out so well for Khan Noonien Singh

• If we’re being truthful, people are saying ‘honestly’ all the time - They really are. Frankly, I’ve had it

• Fire at Turkey perfume warehouse kills six - I didn’t even know turkeys wore perfume

• Hospital Nurse Secretely Sedates Sick Patients to Make His Nightshifts Easier - I certainly don’t condone it… but I understand

• Stonehenge staff on high alert for rock robbers inspired by Louvre heist - I’m sure people probably said the same thing about the jewels at the Louvre, but I don’t think anybody’s going to be able to come up with a way to steal one of those without getting caught

• Saturn Moon Enceladus May Harbor Stable Ocean for Life - I, for one, welcome our new Space Whale overlords

• ‘Very credible’ Bigfoot sighting in Central Pennsylvania - Who had “‘Very Credible’ Bigfoot sighting” on their Bingo card for November?