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The Week’s Most Idyllic, Sibyllic, and Nyctophilic Headlines JUNETEENTH IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with all the black-themed “holidays” each year. Already we’ve had MLK Day (Jan. 18), Black History Month (February), Rosa Parks Day (Feb. 4), Black ...

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The Week’s Most Buoyant, Clairvoyant, and Foudroyant Headlines JEWS VS. DAS SCHWARZE KORPS Believe it or not, last week’s tragic and deadly stampede at an Orthodox Jewish religious festival in Israel (which, it should be noted, did not start because someone heard a coin drop, so let’s end ...

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The Week’s Most Waxing, Taxing, and Vaxxing Headlines AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...RACISM! The Academy Awards don’t exactly have the best record when it comes to racial groveling; every virtue-signaling stunt seems to backfire. At the 1988 Oscars, the Academy made a huge deal about how Eddie Murphy ...

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The Week’s Most Gleaning, Preening, and Overweening Headlines THE PRINCES OF DARKNESS Spin Doctors reimagined: One, two, princes kneel before you That’s what I said, now Princes, princes who adore you Just go ahead, now One has diamonds in his pockets That’s some bread, now This one, said ...

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The Week’s Most Smoldering, Moldering, and Soldering Headlines SMILE FOR THE KHMERA Remember Jill Greenberg? Probably not by name, but perhaps by deed. In September 2008 it was totally cool for leftists to be hatin’ on John McCain. After all, the evil racist warmonger was running against ...

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The Week’s Most Mothering, Smothering, and Othering Headlines BABY GOT BOUILLON Public Service Announcement: If you ever build a time machine, don’t travel back to the 1800s to give Frederick Douglass a briefing on the future. “Such wondrous things you describe! Air travel! Smallpox ...

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The Week’s Most Souring, Glowering, and April-Showering Headlines TODAY’S SESAME STREET IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE NUMBER 1488 Back in the 1970s, Sesame Street introduced Mr. Snuffleupagus, an absurd elephantine/anteater-esque beast that only Big Bird could see. Oh, the mockery that Big Bird ...

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The Week’s Floppiest, Stroppiest, and Corn-Poppiest Headlines SWASTIKY WICKET It is said that as Hans Frank ascended the gallows at Nuremberg, Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, the lone American press representative at the executions, posed a question: “How does it feel, having ruled all of occupied ...

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The Week’s Schmooziest, Booziest, and Ooziest Headlines SPEAK THE TRUTH, BLAME THE BEDEVILED Poor Sandy Sellers. The adjunct professor of mediation and negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center found herself in a jam that even she wasn’t able to negotiate her way out of. Momentarily ...

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The Week’s Most Bitchy, Kitschy, and Twitchy Headlines HOT (WATER) FOR TEACHER Kids are such delightful scamps! Gettin’ into all kinds of Dennis the Menace-style trouble. Trampling mom’s flower bed, walking through the house with muddy feet...getting a man beheaded. That last one is the ...