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Thursday December 18, 2025. 05:39 PM
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a brutal illness. I had it some 15 years ago and it had me choking and honking for weeks. It became rare in the U.S., thanks largely to vaccination against it, but rates are soaring again now the anti-vaxxers are in charge. — Read the rest ...
British media have a fine tradition of using insinuation and humor ('tired and emotional') to mean things without saying them. Lately, though, simply lying about the people you hate has taken over, a symptom of the internet dissolving all news culture into a mush of vaguely...
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Earlier this year, Sony sued Chinese mobile giant Tencent over its game Light of Motiram, in which a dark-haired huntress explores a postapocalyptic Earth populated by cybernetic beasts. A blatant knockoff of Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn, in which a red-haired huntress explores...
Three Santas and 40 elves were counted among those looting a grocery store in Montreal on Monday, watched by shocked workers and customers. They were not an organized crime gang but activists, reports La Presse, a group calling themselves 'Robins des ruelles' in honor of...
I absolutely adore artist Da_gaemee's clever and oh-so-accurate dog-themed embroidery art featuring dogs doing all the things that make them so endearing — like butt-scooting through grass, checking out their reflections in pool water, enthusiastically digging in the ...
Last week, The Borowitz Report, a satirical news project from comedian and writer Andy Borowitz, posted a hilarious piece entitled, 'The Private Haikus of Pete Hegseth,' which posited that in contrast to the 'brash, self-styled' Secretary of War Pete that we've all been...
The moment the first note was played, it was as if Moses himself had parted the crowd. Launching into Destro's Secret, the band's setlist was centered around their 1999 legendary mathcore debut 'Calculating Infinity', and the Dillinger Escape Plan was pulling out all the...
Wednesday December 17, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Boost productivity with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (and the Essential Windows 11 Pro Course) for just $24.99 (Reg. $237). There's a reason Windows is the choice operating system for many Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs alike. Right now, get ahead of everyone...
Trump's White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, an architect of his 2024 win and current king rat of the MAGAverse, is frantically walking back her own words after a tape surfaced of her calling JD Vance a conspiracy theorist, describing Elon Musk as a ketamine-using office...
Hollywood award-season anchor, the Oscars, is making a dramatic exit from broadcast television and moving to YouTube in 2029. This seismic shift ends more than half a century of airing on ABC and embraces the platform where most of the internet already watches everything...
According to a Daily Beast report that reads like a Palm Beach satire written by capitalist cronyism itself, Bettina Anderson reportedly had her eye on 'horsetrading' with Elon Musk before getting engaged to Donald Trump Jr. The alleged strategy involved proximity, ambition, ...
If you shoot first, apparently, this game remembers. This YouTuber ran a test that seems to prove ARC Raiders lobbies aren't random, but more a moral resume of your prior misdeeds. Go complete rat, and you'll find yourself surrounded by folks who find bullets a warm and...
The White House updated its 'Presidential Walk of Fame' on Wednesday with plaques beneath each former president's portrait. They read less like historical descriptions and more like Trump's personal grievances set in stone. Biden's plaque: 'Sleepy Joe was, by far, the worst...
Dan Bongino, the conservative podcast host who became FBI deputy director in February, is quietly telling colleagues he's leaving in early 2026. He plans to announce his departure on December 19 and won't return to headquarters this month. According to MS NOW, Bongino was...
Author Robert Anton Wilson read almost all of mystery writer John Dickson Carr's books. In an interview included in the Hilaritas Press edition of Coincidance, RAW explained his affection for Carr: the man lacked 'the literary values of Chandler or Dashiell Hammett' but...
The measles outbreak that tore through West Texas earlier this year killed two children, hospitalized 99 people, and infected at least 762 Texans — more than half in tiny Seminole, population 7,000. It was the nation's largest outbreak in over 35 years. — Read the rest ...
Frederick Fleischmann, a 58-year-old United Airlines flight attendant, was arrested at Tampa International Airport in March after tapping a Cayman Airways employee on the shoulder during an employee shuttle bus ride. The charge: battery. According to People, which has a...
I'm not a big fan of Christmas music, so I was happy to learn about and then listen to 'enigmatic frontman and eclectic curator' David Byrne's recently posted playlist, 'Christmas Music for People Who Hate Christmas Music.' While I don't *hate* Christmas music, it's...
For years, Tesla has marketed its so-called 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving' software like a sci-fi dream that somehow skipped beta testing and ducked federal regulation. But now, California's DMV is doing the unthinkable: treating Tesla like any other company that isn't...
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