Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Today's news and jokes

("'When somebody said there was a kangaroo of course I didn’t believe it, and nobody believed it. But I’m looking at him,' Macon County Sheriff... said")











This







(The Hill's write-up.)





(I haven't seen any other news articles about this)









(Just wait for the dockworkers to strike to protest modern technology)







("communications director for Councilmember Traci Park, attributes the lack of ongoing burglaries in the Palisades to the high level of neighborhood security. The California National Guard staffs around-the-clock entry and exit checkpoints with assistance from the California Highway Patrol. The LAPD regularly patrols the community. Checkpoints in Altadena, on the other hand, were lifted at the end of January.")































(Looks charming, tho)































(What happened to that trading card-like company?)































































(Mention Tiger Schulmann’s Karate to a millennial from the New York–New Jersey area and witness a blast of nostalgia. Saturday-morning cartoons in the 1990s and 2000s were flooded with his ads: Kids intimidate bullies and kick monsters out of bedroom windows. A Tina Turner sound-alike wails, “Whoa Tiiiiiger! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Tiiiiiger!” A pitchman exhorts parents to call 1-800-52-TIGER. But behind the pressed white uniforms and kids’ birthday parties, Tiger Schulmann’s Karate was once a Wild West of broken bones and bruised egos, fortunes made and reputations squandered, where many of the hits were below the black belt. Schulmann invited the wrath of prosecutors and police, aggrieved former senseis, and keyboard ninjas who called him a “scumbag” and “scam artist.”)































("Get in the boxers, Shinji")



























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