Yearly Archives: 2026

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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With the Bassmaster Elite Series on Lake Champlain this week, it got me thinking about some good ol’ fashioned northern smallmouth fishing. If you’re not familiar, Lake Champlain sits on the New York and Vermont border, and even runs up into the Canadian province of Quebec (not all that far from Montreal). Often called the “6th Great Lake,” it’s an absolutely massive body of water that boasts over 275,000 acres of surface area. But most importantly… well, at least for […]

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Stephen A. Smith has had it up to here with the WNBA. There’s no one that talks more about sports than Stephen A. Smith. He does get paid a lot of money to do so, but one might think that Smith could get a little burnt out blabbering about sports around the clock like he does. The man is on ESPN around the clock talking about every sport under the sun. Football game on? He’s there to talk about it. […]

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