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Grandpa Pudding Brains describes recent chat with President Theodore Roosevelt, who died before he was born
You do remember who Trump absolutely did, however, meet?
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, July 1, 2026
Stolen iPhone plans, gambling losses, a redecorating tortoise
 • Boing Boing
This neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs
Somatoparaphrenia is a rare delusion in which a person denies that one of their limbs, or an entire side of their body, belongs to them — even when…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The myth that Catherine the Great died having sex with a horse, debunked
Catherine the Great, who modernized Russia during her reign, took about 22 lovers over her lifetime — enough to fuel a legend that outlived her by…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1943, the NFL forced the Eagles and Steelers to merge into one team
In 1943, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles had lost so many players to World War II that the NFL forced the two teams to merge into one…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
When a World of Warcraft bug accidentally created a virtual pandemic
On September 13, 2005, Blizzard added a raid to World of Warcraft with a boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, who cast a debuff called Corrupted Blood that…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Marvel wouldn’t let Italian Spiderman into a real Spider-Man movie
In 2007, an Australian film collective called Alrugo Entertainment shot a trailer for a movie that didn’t exist.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The Village People wrote a disco anthem. Grandpa Pudding Brains found a mirror
Every campaign needs a theme song. Few need a psychological case file.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump’s immigration ghoul is back to explaining why some babies don’t count
Flabbergasted that even a major MAGA Supreme Court can’t turn away children born on US soil, America’s angriest white supremacist, Stephen Miller, is…
 • Jason Weisberger
Gotta steal ‘em all! Thieves rob Pokémon shop again
Thieves hit a Los Angeles Pokémon shop again, smashing their way in and stealing another pile of valuable cardboard with monsters on it, because…
 • Jason Weisberger
Not a single laugh: JD Vance tells another joke
JD Vance tried to make a Biden joke in front of troops and got the kind of silence usually reserved for a smoke alarm chirping during a funeral.
 • Jason Weisberger
Farmer gives away 125,000 pounds of nectarines rather than let Big Ag rot them
The nectarines were not allowed to become commerce, so they became community.
 • Jason Weisberger
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