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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:05 am Mon, Jun 1, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged Trump and Epstein party in 1992. Screenshot from video in the NBC News archives

    He wanted originalism until the original words got in the way. Hoping to somehow convince the country that birthright citizenship isn't a longstanding right, Grandpa Pudding Brains got very mad… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:52 am Mon, Jun 1, 2026
    Trump's watch comes with a hilarious typo

    A Rhode Island Trump supporter bought his wife a $640 pink Trump-branded watch, expecting "the integrity of the President of the United States." He got RUMP. Tim Petit, from Middletown,… Read the rest of the article: Trump's watch comes with a hilarious typo

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:39 am Mon, Jun 1, 2026
    Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars. Thanks, MAGA! Image: MAGA follower; Roschetzky Photography / shutterstock.com

    Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars, then delivered expensive gas and a war. Some of his voters have noticed. The New York Times talked to Trump voters in… Read the rest of the article: Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars. Thanks, MAGA!

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  • Jason Weisberger
    9:59 am Mon, Jun 1, 2026
    Grand Canyon's burned lodge leaves a very large hole

    Last summer the Dragon Bravo fire destroyed a beloved US landmark, the Grand Canyon Lodge. This video provides an excellent update on what, if anything, can be done to save… Read the rest of the article: Grand Canyon's burned lodge leaves a very large hole

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  • Jason Weisberger
    9:41 am Mon, Jun 1, 2026
    A pig liver and two pig kidneys worked in a human body for five days Mr.Samarn Plubkilang/shutterstock.com

    Organ transplantation has a supply problem, and the proposed future keeps getting more science-fictional: gene-edited pigs supplying replacement parts for humans. Many believe xenotransplantation could be an important part of… Read the rest of the article: A pig liver and two pig kidneys worked in a human body for five days

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:56 pm Sun, May 31, 2026
    A Bluetooth speaker named "BOMB" ruined everyone's flight to Mallorca A United 767. Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock

    United flight UA236 was supposed to take passengers from Newark to Mallorca. Instead, it became a lesson in why teenage comedy and aviation security should never share a cabin. It… Read the rest of the article: A Bluetooth speaker named "BOMB" ruined everyone's flight to Mallorca

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:35 pm Sun, May 31, 2026
    Sideload Lode Runner onto your Roku Image: Roku

    This YouTube video shows how to sideload apps onto a Roku, which is useful if your streaming box has not been doing enough 1980s computer-game archaeology. Games lovingly ported to… Read the rest of the article: Sideload Lode Runner onto your Roku

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:28 pm Sun, May 31, 2026
    Man who stole $11 million from prison has a new trick: escaping

    Arthur Cofield was already famous for running an $11 million fraud scheme from prison with contraband phones, gold coins, and a private security company. Now he has improved the story… Read the rest of the article: Man who stole $11 million from prison has a new trick: escaping

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:19 pm Sun, May 31, 2026
    Jack Daniel's sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller Jack Daniels

    For 150 years, Jack Daniel's sold the tidy story of a white country preacher teaching a boy to make whiskey. The man actually running the still was Nearest Green, an… Read the rest of the article: Jack Daniel's sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:12 pm Sun, May 31, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains says war is fine because number 69 Mugshots of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

    Grandpa Pudding Brains is bragging that America has "a war going on" and the economy is booming, because apparently, the Dow hitting "number 69" is now how we measure national… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains says war is fine because number 69

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:27 pm Sat, May 30, 2026
    Acupuncture hits different in Nebraska

    I am not sure who failed harder, the AI used to create the image, or the social media manager who let it out into the wild: I do not think… Read the rest of the article: Acupuncture hits different in Nebraska

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:22 am Sat, May 30, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he's bigger than Elvis

    Grandpa Pudding Brains is mad that the "Third Rate Artists" are getting "the yips," so he may replace them with the only performer he truly respects: Grandpa Pudding Brains. Get… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he's bigger than Elvis

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  • Jason Weisberger
    3:10 pm Fri, May 29, 2026
    RFK Jr.'s "just a rash" disease filled Texas hospital beds vaccine

    The anti-vaccine crowd spent years trying to rebrand measles as a harmless childhood inconvenience. Texas just supplied the hospital records. In a study published yesterday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly… Read the rest of the article: RFK Jr.'s "just a rash" disease filled Texas hospital beds

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:46 am Fri, May 29, 2026
    Oscar Mayer's Wienermobiles returned to Indy to haul buns Image: Oscar Mayer

    The second annual Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 is eleven innuendo-packed minutes of giant hot dogs racing around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is more or less what we call fine art… Read the rest of the article: Oscar Mayer's Wienermobiles returned to Indy to haul buns

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:18 am Fri, May 29, 2026
    The pyramids' missing casing stones have a better story than "thieves" Pyramids in Egypt. Photo: GLF Media / Shutterstock.com

    The pyramids used to be smooth, white, and blinding in the sun. Now they look like giant ancient staircases, and the usual explanation is that people stole the good bits.… Read the rest of the article: The pyramids' missing casing stones have a better story than "thieves"

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:36 am Fri, May 29, 2026
    California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts Katherine Welles/shutterstock

    San Diego's vacancy tax points to a much bigger California problem A lot of California's problems are made worse when homes and storefronts become investments rather than places where people… Read the rest of the article: California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts

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  • Jason Weisberger
    9:29 am Fri, May 29, 2026
    Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, which seems off-brand

    Pattie Gonia is a drag queen and climate activist who raises money for environmental causes, hikes in heels, and has apparently become an existential threat to Patagonia's fleece empire. The… Read the rest of the article: Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, which seems off-brand

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  • Jason Weisberger
    4:34 pm Thu, May 28, 2026
    Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states Maria Sbytova / Shutterstock.com

    Fox News host Harris Faulkner is gamely trying to turn Trump's sanctuary city airport sabotage into a misguided travel brochure. International travelers are not interchangeable units in a national tourism… Read the rest of the article: Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:49 pm Thu, May 28, 2026
    Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing

    Gray whales beat commercial whaling, only to run into a warmer Arctic that is quietly starving them. Gray whales were one of the great marine mammal recovery stories. Commercial whaling… Read the rest of the article: Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:15 pm Thu, May 28, 2026
    Dashcam shows Los Angeles cops dangerously lose their suspect Image: J.D.S/shutterstock.com

    After performing some destruction-derby tactical driving on the streets of Downtown that was especially impressive for how easily a person evading capture could escape, whichever of Los Angeles' law enforcement… Read the rest of the article: Dashcam shows Los Angeles cops dangerously lose their suspect

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