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Let's fine people for bad driving / Dogs are even better for you than you thought / A new gauge for inflation

Just remember, you've been someone else's a-hole driver

Keith Conrad
Mar 18
 
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We need more of this. $20,000 for failing to use your turn signal. What else should have a fine slapped on it?

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The only thing more effective than therapy is a game of fetch—just don’t expect your dog to cover the copay!


Remembering John Feinstein

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
The world of sports journalism lost a giant with the passing of John Feinstein. A prolific writer with 48 books to his name—including A Season on the Brink, one of the best-selling basketball books of all time

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A Day in the Life of a (Beleaguered) Congressional Staffer

BELEAGUERED STAFFERS W/ KEITH CONRAD, LAURA FINCH & SEAN MAGERS
Working in Congress may sound like a glamorous job—policy debates, historic votes, and rubbing elbows with power players. But the reality is often far less glamorous, most of the time you’re taking calls from crazy constituents, or worse, people like Keith Conrad

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Scalded by Starbucks Tea, Man Wins $50M - The ultimate inflation gauge: Back in 1994 getting scalded by a hot beverage only landed someone $2.7 million

  • The government wants to understand the health effects of ultraprocessed foods so it paid people $5,000 to eat chicken nuggets for science - WHERE DO I SIGN UP??

  • USA asks Denmark for help in the egg crisis - Isn’t the President also threatening to seize their territory?

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining - I don’t think anyone would doubt that

  • Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test - That’s less than ideal

  • Bus With Bagpipers Runs Into Tractor-Trailer - The driver was probably distracted from all the high-pitched screeching

  • Man Wearing "I Never Argue" T-Shirt Busted For Violent Argument With Woman - He probably argued with the police too

  • Cops: Gunman Arrested For Karaoke Rage - Maybe it’s not that the machine is broken, maybe you’re just a terrible singer

  • Pi Day: British boy lists 280 digits of pi from memory in one minute - I could do that. I just choose not to

  • Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New Study - Unless you’re watching a lion take down a wildebeest and you have some empathy for the wildebeest

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