Michael Orchard, a New Yorker from Halfmoon, was very courageous last Thursday. The 43-year-old man noticed that his neighbor’s house was on fire and immediately leapt into action, braving the flames and rescuing the dog trapped inside the inferno. By the time local authorities arrived at the scene, Orchard had already accomplished his mission, standing […]
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NCIS isn’t just a deathlessly redundant television show. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service also exists in real life, functioning as a protective agency that focuses on situations involving the Navy and Marines. Nautical stuff. You know, on the water. John Beliveau Jr. was an NCIS agent. Once, he was the NCIS agent of the year. […]
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Time plods forward, we grow older, approaching death steadily, and evil clowns grow larger in presence with each passing day. Probably we should blame the internet. This insanity is almost definitely the internet’s fault. Police officers predicted copycats when clowns first started emerging from the Carolina woods, and voila, the problem is now global. Meanwhile, […]
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In many cases, working together with other people to accomplish a shared goal is an effective strategy. It’s hard to build a house by yourself, for example, and it’d be equally difficult to extinguish the flames if that house caught on fire. Teamwork makes the dream work, as they say. Not that the concept of […]
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Ever seen The Eric Andre Show? Check it out. It’s basically a cosmetically low-budget talk show (think public access television) where host Eric Andre tries his best to freak out guests and keep his audience surprised. Maybe cockroaches suddenly start flooding out of the coffee mug on Eric’s desk. Maybe some naked guy appears and […]
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Kim Kardashian has had a strange week in Paris. On Wednesday, some kind of famous prankster tried to literally kiss her butt. She can thank her bodyguard for his quick intervention. No butts were kissed that day. Flash-forward to the following Monday (today), and we arrive at strange event no. 2: a bunch of burglars […]
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Police officers aren’t getting the most flattering press coverage these days. While many, perhaps most, members of the nationwide law enforcement community are competent and well-intentioned folks who regularly put their lives on the line for the well-being of their locality, all these police shootings of unarmed black people aren’t doing much for the general […]
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Depending on who you are, baking a cake might come off as a nice way to apologize when the situation calls for it. Cakes are nice. Who doesn’t like cake? Of course, sometimes the situation doesn’t call for a cake-apology. And even if cakes are an appropriate vehicle for saying sorry, that’s only assuming the […]
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A freshman at East Tennessee State University was taken into custody on Wednesday after disrupting a Black Lives Matter protest. Eighteen-year-old Tristen Rettke showed up wearing a gorilla mask and overalls, offering protesters bananas tied to a rope. Video footage captured by attendees show Rettke standing by his rope-bananas and holding a burlap sack with […]
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There’s a lot of bad stuff in the world. The news talks about it every day. We follow serial killer trials, we watch cellphone videos of cops shooting people, we listen while pundits and politicians preach consistent tidings of doomsday. For whatever reason, and there are plenty, it’s easy to forget about the good stuff. […]
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