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Chicago has seen its hottest temperatures in years this week, with more coming today: Not since July 24, 2005 when O'Hare hit 39°C and a reading of 40°C occurred at Midway, has a triple-digit [Fahrenheit] reading occurred at the city's two observation sites. The entire 83 year observational record at Midway includes only 84 38°C or higher temperatures—and just 26 have occurred in the nearly half-century period since 1960. Good thing I'm not in Chicago this week. No, I'm in San Antonio, where the...

Because only in the United States do we have, enshrined in our basic law, the right to establish a city populated exclusively by religious nutters: Kiryas Joel is an enclave of ultra-orthodox Jews who belong to the Satmar Hasidic sect. Members of this group believe in separating themselves from others – they’d rather not be around non-sect members. Thirty-four years ago, they won the right to create their own village from the surrounding community of Monroe. The village’s founders might have envisioned...

The Khas Mahal, Delhi, India: 30 January 2011, Canon 20D at ISO-1600, 1/125 at f/5.6, 18mm, here.

The Daily Parker may miss a couple Photos of the Day over the next week or two as I'm ramping up a new project. I've got a few photos in the queue for the feature, but it takes time to find them, edit them, and post them, time I won't have lots of until probably the end of July. Here, however, is Four Courts, Dublin: 22 June 2008, Canon 20D at ISO-100, 1/125 at f/8, 18mm, here.

Whiting, Vt.: 17 October 1992, Canon T-90, Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, here.

Last one (I think) from Pittsburgh, from the Duquense Incline, inside the machinery room: 9 July 2011, ISO-100, 1/320 at f/5.6, 18mm, here.

Yet another view of PNC Park, from the Warhol Bridge, after the fireworks: 9 July 2011, ISO-1600, 1/30 sec. at f/5.6, 29mm, here.

Continuing the Pittsburgh theme, a view of PNC Park as the groundskeepers set up for the .38 Special concert: ISO-3200, 1/15 at f/2, 50mm, here.

The indefatigable Paul Krugman smacks down the excuses for why the government has failed to get the economy going: [A] destructive passivity has overtaken our discourse. Turn on your TV and you’ll see some self-satisfied pundit declaring that nothing much can be done about the economy’s short-run problems (reminder: this “short run” is now in its fourth year), that we should focus on the long run instead. This gets things exactly wrong. The truth is that creating jobs in a depressed economy is something...