Daily Archives: August 14, 2026

Who do they think their audience is? I’ll be honest, I don’t really watch the NBA so I didn’t know that schedule release videos were a thing over there. I know they’ve become a big deal in the NFL over the past couple years, but apparently NBA teams are doing them too now? Well it might be time for them to stop, because after this cringeworthy schedule release video from the Toronto Raptors, I think the entire concept of schedule […]

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Lukas Nelson ripping the Grateful Dead’s “Touch of Grey” just feels right. Despite being the son of the great Willie Nelson, Lukas is one of the most underrated artists in the country music genre. His songwriting and vocals can stand up against the best, and it was last summer when Lukas Nelson released his first, solo album, American Romance. On it, the son of the Red-Headed Stranger carved out his own lane, and provided a handful of hit songs that […]

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A teenager in Arizona is currently facing a misdemeanor assault charge for… hitting one of his schoolmates (who happened to be his ex-girlfriend) with a dodgeball during gym class. There’s no doubt that the world has changed a lot in the past couple of decades. Technology continues to reach new heights and become smarter, all while the humans that populate the Earth seem to be getting dumber. In the latest example, an eighth grader named Abel Schipper is having to […]

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Phoebe Gates, the daughter of Microsoft founder and billionaire tech mogul Bill Gates, has been accused of “cookie stuffing” at her multi-million-dollar startup, Phia. Cookie stuffing is a form of digital fraud in which tracking files are placed onto a person’s web browser without their consent, and carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in […]

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Being in a stiflingly hot plane for any length of time can be very uncomfortable. For some people, it can even be hazardous to their health. That is unfortunately what some passengers on a Ryanair flight allegedly experienced recently. Per the New York Post, “Ryanair passengers allegedly passed out and vomited after being trapped for […]

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In a dreadful, unimaginable accident, a fun family getaway suddenly turned tragic for an elderly man. He lost his life when a rock came crashing through the roof of a Jeep he was in on July 11 at Glacier National Park in Montana. According to the Flathead Beacon, Rex Schowengerdt, 73, of Missouri, died July […]

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“Count Binface” has some pretty good policies, too – with one reading, “I will cut your taxes, and raise everyone else’s”.

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Brad Pitt also explained other avenues of acting in daily life which he really thought was tacky – and how he’d make them more realistic.

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Marco Rubio opened up about his dislike for the genre, quoting a common trope every country fan has heard 1,000 times before.

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Long live the Chief. In many ways, Eric Church is a bit of an enigma in country music. Oftentimes, he strays away from what many would consider to be classic hallmarks of the genre, including but not limited to rare uses of fiddle in many of his songs and the outright refusal to use steel guitar on many of his songs post Sinners Like Me. Despite this constant urge to push the limits and reinvent his sound, Church has remained […]

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