The Daily Parker

With only about a week of autumn left officially, we have some great weather today. Cassie is with her pack at day care and I'm inside my downtown office looking at the sun and (relative) warmth outside, but the weather should continue through Friday.

What else is going on?

• A reader who remembers watching The Play live on TV sent a story about the statue the Bears erected to Keven Moen and unveiled last week.
• A new study ranks Asian and Scandinavian public-transit systems best in the world, with American cities doing poorly by comparison because of our automobile fetish.
• Quinta Jurecic takes offense at having her attention jerked around by super-rich adolescent men who only want the attention.
• As the percentage of major sporting events held in authoritarian countries continues to climb, does FIFA's cynicism and corruption really surprise anyone?

Finally, I hate to tell you, we will never find any real evidence to support the existence of Noah's Ark.