When the rain comes

I took Cassie out at 11am instead of her usual 12:30pm because of this:

The storm front passed quickly, but it hit right at 12:30 and continued for half an hour with some intensity. It'll keep raining on and off all day, too.

Other things rained down in the past day or so:

• Robert Wright points out the obvious, warning that the XPOTUS was (and would be again if re-elected) way, way worse than President Biden on Gaza.
• Jennifer Rubin points out the obvious, echoing the warnings of Republican national-security experts, including John Bolton, John F Kelly, and Robert M Gates, that the XPOTUS is not fit to govern.
• A group of 23 Chicago alderthingies (alders? alderpeoples?) agreed not to oppose the construction of a bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor down Western Avenue between Berwyn and 79th.
• The BBC investigates why building techniques today look almost exactly like those in the 1920s.
• Still no cicadas in my neighborhood, but we have time. And I plan to hike on the North Branch trail mid-June.
• Yesterday's Chicago White Sox game ended abruptly when the 3rd-base umpire called the runner on 2nd out for unintentionally making contact with the shortstop. The Post reports that it was technically the correct call, but no one likes it.

Finally, Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock has died at age 53 of cancer. No word whether the production of the 2004 documentary contributed to his early demise.