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Wasn't the biggest fan of his presidency but I would absolutely watch him costar with Giancarlo Esposito in a noirish Coenesque comedy-thriller about two dapper aging spies.
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
Utah has officially brought felony charges against Kalshi and its two co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara.
The company and its cofounders are facing one count of pattern of unlawful activity, a second-degree felony; 12 counts of online gambling promotion, a third-degree felony; and one count of general gambling promotion, a Class A misdemeanor.
abc4.com/news/local-news/uta…
I gotta believe that green juice, detoxification, and intermittent fasting will cure it.
It took about five minutes for Jesse Dalton’s iPhone Duo dream to shift into nightmare mode.
He had only opened and closed the Duo four or five times when the hinge got stuck at a 45-degree angle. Dalton tried to pry it open and heard a loud pop.
🔗 on.wsj.com/3UrzwNd
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @GrahamRayman & @joeanuta politico.com/news/2026/10/26…
This is as close as gay men of my era will ever get to seeing Tab Hunter in a date with Natalie Wood.
I'll beat this dead horse until it comes back to life: not only do Jews and Muslims share status as tiny minorities in the US, but Judaism and Islam are far, far more similar to each other as religions than either is to Christianity.
Honestly tickled that The UPS Store just misses the top quartile of American chain snobbisme.
Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans?
Here’s what the data show
washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
