America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math. A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years. The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be. The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes. Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day. And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.

They could have taken this exact court to a nearby park and tested it along with options to solve it until they knew they had it figured out. Embarrassing to be reduced to high level D1 athletes toweling the floor

This is what “preventive care” looks like in America in 2026. A patient goes in for the annual physical her insurance promised would be covered. She mentions anxiety and bloating. The clinic later bills her $216 because, and I quote the billing office: “Insurances pay once a year for a physical—which is just that. A physical, no problems can be discussed.” Read that again. No problems can be discussed. What, exactly, is the point of a “preventative physical” if the patient is not allowed to mention the conditions she is trying to prevent? There is no healthy adult walking around with zero medical concerns. Anxiety. Bloating. Fatigue. Sleep. Weight. Blood pressure that is starting to creep. A family history that suddenly feels relevant. These are not “problem visits.” These are the exact conversations that turn a checkbox exam into actual prevention. The current coding and payment rules punish that conversation. The moment a physician documents a concern and uses clinical judgment, the visit can be reclassified from a no-cost preventive service into an evaluation-and-management visit subject to deductible and copay. Clinics know this. Insurers know this. Hospital systems that own those clinics know this. The patient is the last person told. The result is predictable: • Patients learn to stay silent so they do not get a surprise bill. • Early, cheap problems become late, expensive ones. • Physicians are trained by RVUs and modifier-25 rules to treat humans as either “well” or “sick,” never as people who need both screening and counsel in the same 20 minutes. • Insurers keep the premium and deny the claim. Hospital systems bill the higher code. The patient pays twice—once in premiums, again at the window. This is a billing product dressed up as wellness, and it has nothing to do with medicine. @SecKennedy @RobertKennedyJr @DrOz @DrOzCMS @CMSGov @POTUS — you have the authority to end this farce. Require that a covered annual preventive visit include the discussion of common symptoms and risk factors without automatically converting the encounter into a separately billed problem visit. Mandate clear, written notice before the visit if any conversation may trigger cost-sharing. Stop letting the CPT codebook decide whether a doctor is allowed to listen. Prevention that forbids the patient from speaking is not remotely close to prevention. It is a trap that makes Americans sicker and the people who run the billing departments richer. Fix the rule. Do it now. Every adult who has ever sat in that exam room already knows this is broken. They are waiting for someone in Washington to admit it.

I live and work in Massachusetts, just miles from where the Lindsay Clancy case is being tried. To understand where Massachusetts Democrats are mentally, consider this... every mother I work with, and I mean every single one, believes Clancy should not be held responsible. Most refuse even to acknowledge that she killed her children, instead claiming her husband did it. Keep in mind that Clancy’s own defense is not even arguing that she did not commit the killings.

Rutgers paying UMass $1.5M to play them Week 1 as 30-point favorites only to lose and then set off a pre-planned fireworks show postgame might be the single saddest thing l've ever seen

I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid. Wanna know what else I think is dumb? The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether. Here’s a list of some in case you forgot: • Washington Redskins ➡️ Commanders • Cleveland Indians ➡️ Guardians • Stanford Indians ➡️ Cardinals • Loudoun County Raiders ➡️ Captains • Edmonton Eskimos ➡️ Elks • Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day • Lee–Jackson Day ➡️ eliminated • Robert E. Lee High School ➡️ John Lewis High • Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway • Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali • Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty • Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos • Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America • Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company • Uncle Ben’s Rice ➡️ Ben’s Original • Eskimo Pie ice cream bars ➡️ Edy’s Pie • Land O’Lakes ➡️ removed the Indian, but kept the land • Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented worker • Hispanic ➡️ Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use) • Mother ➡️ birthing person • Anchor baby ➡️ child of noncitizens • black ➡️ Black • Breastfeeding ➡️ chest feeding • Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon ➡️ justice-involved person • Ex-con / ex-felon ➡️ returning citizen • “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct • Fat ➡️ plus-sized • Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom • Manhole ➡️ utility hole And so on and so on. . .

The funniest part about IU shit talkers is that they were ND football fans until about 2 years ago