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The Great Pumpkin is real and on the run in Ohio

In what may be the most seasonal police chase in recent memory, this week, Ohio officers found themselves in hot pursuit of a very large, very orange suspect. No, not that one; it was a runaway inflatable pumpkin. Body-cam footage…
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“The Chair Company” is peak Tim Robinson

Recently, I read an analysis of why so many otherwise sane-seeming people find themselves drawn to QAnon and other mass delusions. The writer pointed to the standard empirical data points – consumer confidence, morale, the usuals – but eventually landed…
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John Oliver slams CBS for putting Bari Weiss in charge

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver launched a pointed critique of the recent decision to install Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News following the network’s acquisition of her media outlet, The Free Press. Oliver criticized Weiss’s journalistic track…
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Horror has always been about us

A lot has been written in recent years about a horror-film renaissance that doubled the category’s market share in the decade between 2013 and 2023, from 4.87% to 10.08%. Much of it has focused on the subgenre of so-called prestige…
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We’re all living in Murdaugh Country now

Shortly after “Murdaugh: Death in the Family” hints at the crimes that landed Alex Murdaugh in prison for life, it makes a time jump back to one of their supposedly better days when his family was still on top of…
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