Intro

The first-ever YouTube video:

Happy Birthday Billy Shakes!

 

Bud Light marketing VP takes leave of absence in wake of Dylan Mulvaney backlash: report

Dumb idea: Buttigieg wants to spend $20 million on female crash dummies

Charges dropped against Alec Baldwin in fatal on-set ‘Rust’ shooting

News of the Weird and Wonderful

More weird than wonderful

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say

Sheep spends hours trying to enter Connecticut home

Message in a bottle found after 10 years in Australia

More wonderful than weird

Student ID from stolen purse returned to woman after 41 years

Welcome to the New Abnormal

Trans Teacher Who Threatened to Shoot Students Removed from School

Twisted. Washington State has fallen.

Legislation to protect trans youth seeking lifesaving care passes the House

Hmm. How weird.

A cardiologist warns more people in their 20s and 30s are showing up with heart attacks and heart disease

Pfizer to Buy Cancer Biotech Seagen for $43 Billion

What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?

 

This is Why we Can’t Have Nice things

Taliban ban restaurant gardens for families, women in Herat

An error that sent Indian teen to death row for 25 years

Teens face only misdemeanor charges — of criminal trespassing — after crashing stolen car, killing infant in Chicago

Coco, the Labrador cross becomes the first canine to be treated for addiction

Honking at a protest isn’t free speech, California judges rule. Driver loses appeal

School bus driver who slammed on brakes to ‘teach kids a lesson’ facing 30 child abuse charges

 

News of the Wonderfuller

One of our listeners shared this story with us:

Judy: The Dog who became a prisoner of war