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'Tree police': Quebec town charges $200 fee for homeowners with treeless yards [ [link removed] ]
I would be extremely petty and try to find a place to sell me a tree that was dying, that way no one could say I didn’t have a tree in my yard. A giant version of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree
Most Americans want to read more books. We just don't [ [link removed] ]
In other words, we like to say we want to read more books, but we don’t actually read. BTW, if you actually do want to read more books, maybe you can start with my first novel Righteous Might [ [link removed] ]. It’s just like the move The Final Countdown, except for the characters, the beginning, the middle and the ending
Smoke-Filled Rooms and Tariff Tantrums [ [link removed] ]
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander revisit a bygone era of sports journalism while confronting the looming consequences of new tariffs, inflation, and a shifting global economy
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
This week’s story is Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton. On a desolate Martian plain, a discarded spacesuit stuffed with straw sways from a homing tower—left behind by a crew fleeing the silent guilt of having unknowingly ignited the slow, unstoppable destruction of an alien civilization hidden beneath the dust.
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Colby Hall Talks Trump, Canada, and Media Distraction [ [link removed] ]
AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
John Howell welcomes Colby Hall, founding editor of Mediaite.com and Peabody Award-winning TV producer, for a discussion that spanned Trump’s curious obsession with Canada and Greenland, media manipulation, and the Democratic Party’s struggles to define itself.
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Girl Claims Victory in Campaign to Urge Department Store to Include Pockets in Girls Pants [ [link removed] ] - Fighting the fight women has been struggling with for generations
He Taunted Cops Online to Come Find Him. They Did [ [link removed] ] - Listen, if he was smart he wouldn’t be a criminal to begin with
Thieving kids stuff little brother into arcade claw machine to steal soft toys [ [link removed] ] - It’s always nice to see families doing things together… but maybe try something a little less illegal as a bonding exercise next time
Mountain Resort Installs Dozens of Escalators for “Painless Hiking Experience” [ [link removed] ] - Is it really hiking if you’re riding a giant escalator?
26-Year-Old Man Suffers Stroke After Getting Neck Massage [ [link removed] ] - But the good news is he no longer feels any pain in his neck…
A Day at Uranus Just Got 28 Seconds Longer [ [link removed] ] - Submitted without comment
Cops: Teen Choked Over Dipping Sauce [ [link removed] ] - They take their dipping sauce very seriously at McDonalds
Giant rat wins world record for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia [ [link removed] ] - He only gets to be wrong once
Man plans to use World War II bomb found in his garden as beer cooler [ [link removed] ] - Truly beating swords into plowshares
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