Ireland

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The Week’s Most Embering, Dismembering, and December-to-Remembering Headlines BLACK MAGICAL KINGDOM For the first time since 2014, not a single Disney film this year has earned a billion dollars. Following last week’s crash-and-burn of the female-led LGBTBLM flop The Marvels, the House of ...

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The Week’s Quirkiest, Jerkiest, and Leftover-Turkiest Headlines GOING COLD TURKEY Another Thanksgiving come and gone. And, as every year, a cavalcade of op-eds about how the holiday is “genocidal.” Although, when you think about it, while Native Americans are generally portrayed as the ...

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The Week’s Most Wasting, Pasting, and Turkey-Basting Headlines RICKET SCIENTISTS Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Lowclassterpiece Theatre. When Minot, North Dakota, resident Steven Riley, a “son of the soil” who’d dedicated his life to learning how to open beer cans from the ...

New Orleans, French Quarter

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The Week’s Most Hissing, Prissing, and Armisticing Headlines ALL THAT FRITTERS IS NOT GOLD Patrisse Cullors is the BLM zeppelin who embezzled millions of George Floyd bucks before being kicked out of her own bankrupt org. And now she’s reinvented herself as a “performance artist,” raking ...

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The Week’s Most Flocking, Mocking, and Turn-Back-the-Clocking Headlines URINE FOR A TREAT! The gig-economy food delivery industry is just one “Professor Cumcookies” away from a reckoning. He was the L.A. teachers’ union perv (Weingarten-approved!) who brought cookies for his elementary ...

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The Week’s Most Preening, Demeaning, and Halloweening Headlines HEAVY ARTERIAL BOMBARDMENT Nobody’s saying 550-pound BLM activist Zyahna Bryant is fat, but... George Floyd died because she inhaled in front of him and depleted all the oxygen for five square blocks. The Libyan flood happened ...

Rod Stewart

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The Week’s Most Lying, Trying, and Pumpkin-Buying Headlines SNOW WHITEFISH In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Jew in Thorns,” a young servant feeds a starving dwarf, who turns out to be a leprechaun (or the German equivalent: Christoph Waltz) who grants the servant three wishes. The ...

Shamrock, Texas

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The Week’s Most Kinetic, Frenetic, and Poetic Headlines FRIENDLY SERVICE WITH A HEIL A Nazi in uniform walks into a taco joint in Texas. He sits at a table. Confused and nervous, the waiter scurries into the back office to talk to the owner. “Hey, Gustavo,” he says, “a Nazi just walked ...

Laphonza Butler

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The Week’s Most Biting, Alighting, and GOP-Infighting Headlines THE PUDSUCKER PROXY A Gavin Newsom/Dianne Feinstein duet: Feinstein: Don’t cry for me, California! Ché Gavara: You were supposed to have been immortal! That’s all I wanted, not much to ask for. Feinstein: Now keep your ...

Jennifer Granholm

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The Week’s Most Jesting, Besting, and Oktoberfesting Headlines ALL HEBREWS’ EVE With October upon us, it’s a good time to salute an unsung hero of Halloween: Paul Rebalde Brooks. In October 1986, the actor-of-color took a job at Universal Studios, which was debuting a new event, “Halloween ...