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Why Netflix only champions crap

Have you heard the tale of — come closer, we can’t speak too loudly — the . . . Whisper Man? If the beast’s name alone didn’t send shivers down your spine, just wait: He’s like those other cockamamy-named figures…
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For a few years around the turn of the millennium, Ronald McDonald had an unusually sophisticated side hustle. Between 1998 and 2003, McDonald’s released six installments of “The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald,” a direct-to-video series sending Ronald, Grimace, Hamburglar…
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Kalshi kicks out George Santos forever

Kalshi, the online prediction market platform, has finally had enough of George Santos, issuing the company’s first-ever lifetime ban to the former Republican congressman. He is accused of violating Kalshi’s rules regarding insider trading and market manipulation, fining him more…
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HBO’s “Lanterns” illuminates a familiar double standard

Trauma creates superheroes, we’re told. Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents’ murder and made vengeance his life’s mission. Superman survived his planet’s destruction. “Lanterns” opens with the shocking scene of John Stewart’s father, John Sr. (J. Alphonse Nicholson), aiming a gun…
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A brownie-muffin for zucchini season

My grandmother has always been a rattler. When I was a child, she gave me a book called “Gus Was a Friendly Ghost,” about a genial little ghost who makes grilled-cheese sandwiches and occasionally gives himself away by bumping around…
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It’s critical that you see “Coyote vs. Acme”

Every time a megacorporation does something that is so categorically, unequivocally, indisputably, jaw-droppingly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, all-caps “BAD”, one has to wonder: Haven’t the greaseballs in charge heard of a little thing called karma? The intoxicating high…
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