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Get ready for the tree police / Most Americans want to read more / Women score a victory in the battle for pockets

It's a homeowners association, not a dictatorship

Keith Conrad
Apr 8
 
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'Tree police': Quebec town charges $200 fee for homeowners with treeless yards

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

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. 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

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

Amateurs No More: College Sports, Cash, and the End of Illusions

John Howell / Rick Telander

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Auditory Anthology

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.

Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Colby Hall Talks Trump, Canada, and Media Distraction

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.

Constitutional Law Expert Eric Segall on the State of the Supreme Court

Big John Howell

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Girl Claims Victory in Campaign to Urge Department Store to Include Pockets in Girls Pants - Fighting the fight women has been struggling with for generations

  • He Taunted Cops Online to Come Find Him. They Did - 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 - 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” - Is it really hiking if you’re riding a giant escalator?

  • 26-Year-Old Man Suffers Stroke After Getting Neck Massage - But the good news is he no longer feels any pain in his neck…

  • A Day at Uranus Just Got 28 Seconds Longer - Submitted without comment

  • Cops: Teen Choked Over Dipping Sauce - They take their dipping sauce very seriously at McDonalds

  • Giant rat wins world record for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia - He only gets to be wrong once

  • Man plans to use World War II bomb found in his garden as beer cooler - Truly beating swords into plowshares

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