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• New: “Father Humor” 🐸 • Soon: “The Mutants Take Manhattan” (a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles book for Choose Your Own Adventure) 🐢🐢🐢🐢 • “Arguably, one of Oregon’s top 73 Barts.” –Barts Weekly 🧃 https://bartking.net

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I'm excited to share news of my upcoming book “The Mutants Take Manhattan.” It's a Choose Your Own Adventure title that features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, old friends, and fun new characters! Will readers enjoy this project's goofy adventures? Let me check with my panel of experts: 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢

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This excellent history of life in Berlin under a murderous regime traces many heartbreaking and sometimes heroic stories. But the general theme is that so often, people do not do the hard thing – instead they just “go along.”

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The author does not try overly hard to draw parallels with contemporary political society— it’s not necessary. For example, read German journalist Ruth Andreas-Friedrich’s response to a 1943 speech by Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party.

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🚨 Oregon votes by mail—but delays resulting from USPS budget cuts endanger the validity of ballots cast in “rural areas.” The rates of ballots rejected for arriving late this year doubled or tripled in areas affected by the cuts compared to the 2022 primary. 🚨 www.propublica.org/article/mail...

propublica.orgBallot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail ServiceA ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have...
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We live in Silverton, a town of 10,000 that is a short drive from the state capital, Salem. But guess what? We are apparently “rural” enough to be “ballot endangered.” Experts advise voters to deposit their ballots in drop boxes rather than relying on the mail. (Or at least mail early!)

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What’s hilarious is that autotune was designed to lend a sheen of musicality to mediocre voices … and AI music imitates autotune just because consumers have been conditioned to expect it. Regardless, there’s nothing more rootsy than country music from AI pixels depicting whiskers and a cowboy hat.

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The first exhibit should be an interactive display showing how I suffered a catastrophic wipeout while riding my bike over a 1/4-inch lip in the pavement going 1 mph.

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“Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun who’s trying to stop another good guy with a gun who’s jumping out of his vehicle to run and stop a bad guy with a gun who’s blasting his way into an elementary school to stop a teacher with a phone from…” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/onl...

mcsweeneys.netOnly a Good Guy with a Gun“Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun who’s trying to stop another good guy with a gun who’s jumping out of his vehicle to run and stop a...
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If you cast a ballot but don't use your "I voted!" sticker, your ballot should only count for half. (Insane? Maybe, but I have a strong adherence to this policy.)

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Data mining is real, y'all: I got in an Uber this weekend and the driver had a "Yacht Rock" playlist cued up. "Would you like to listen to some music?" he asked expectantly.

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Editor Michael Kinsley asked readers to find more boring headlines than “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.” Favorites included: — “University of Rochester Decides to Keep Name” — “Surprises Unlikely in Indiana” — “Prevent Burglary by Locking House, Detectives Urge” — “Trade, A Two-Way Street”

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See also: — “End Textile Quotas” — “Beyond the News, Larger Issues” — “Thoughts at Graduation Time” — “Methodists Oppose Use of Nuclear Arms” — “Economist Dies” Via Futility Closet; newrepublic.com/article/8379...

newrepublic.comDon't Stop The PressesReaders of TNR have responded generously to our request for examples of boring headlines. The entire staff is comatose with appreciation. In the late 1920s the British writer Claud Cockburn won a cont...
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So many amusement parks went broke during the Great Depression, people were willing to wait in line for hours to ride a roller coaster. Their lines were notorious—tempers frayed, fights broke out, and "roller coaster" murders took place. This source dryly notes: "The bad publicity hurt business."

Bart King
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I'm excited to share news of my upcoming book “The Mutants Take Manhattan.” It's a Choose Your Own Adventure title that features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, old friends, and fun new characters! Will readers enjoy this project's goofy adventures? Let me check with my panel of experts: 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢

Bart King
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"The Mutants Take Manhattan" is available for preorders! – Indiebound: tinyurl.com/mvuat523 – Penguin Random House: tinyurl.com/3kbrpmbh – Barnes and Noble: tinyurl.com/44yscxcb – Amazon: tinyurl.com/357zrx2s

tinyurl.comTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Mutants take Manhattan (Choose Your Own Adventure)A thrilling Choose Your Own Adventure® book based on Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!Are YOU ready to be a ninja and journey through the dark side of New York City? Join Leonardo, Michelang...
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ME: Hey look, a hummingbird! 9-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOR KID: Did you know a hummingbird's tongue is so long, it coils inside its head and goes around its skull and eyeballs? ME: