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A new case of the novel coronavirus confirmed in Northern California is possibly the first instance in the U.S. of community spread, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

Best idea ever: This hotel lets you foster a dog during your stay, and if you just can't say goodbye, they have a solution.

If you have the time, you can also watch John Oliver explain the process.

Top photo "students at Kennedy Catholic High School have left their classrooms and are staging a sit-in in their hallways to protest the forced resignation of two LGBT teachers."

Graph below based on data from the CDC:  "Youth behavior trends in the United States, 9th grade, 14-15 years old" -

Via the technicallythetruth subreddit.

We apologize in advance for all the husbands that will buy these.

Via the Whatcouldgowrong subreddit, where the discussion thread includes a link to a related story.

What’s that saying about forests and trees

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Contrary to what many people may believe, working in comedy under the Trump administration isn’t like being a cartoon prospector who just found a hill full of softball-sized gold nuggets. The Don isn’t a bottomless well of material — quite the opposite! Sure, in the early days of his presidency he provided almost more fodder than people knew what to do with, but those days are behind us.

That’s not to say Trump has become less of a buffoon while in office. He actually somehow manages to continue reaching new levels of nincompoopery never before seen in the White House, but it’s become harder and harder to take his raw lunacy and weave it into comedy gold. Why? Well, because it’s just not funny anymore, for one. His incompetence isn’t novel, it has real ramifications, it’s scary, and dangerous, and infuriating, and it’s hard to laugh at that.

Secondly, he’s almost annoyingly good at self-owns.

Like, shit, the guy literally stood in front of a crowd of people, including cameras, stared into an eclipse, and then pointed at it. He boasted about how “tough, virtually impenetrable” his beloved border wall was — and then it literally blew over in the wind.

WHAT is more funny than that. HOW is anyone supposed to make that more perfectly hilarious than it already is. They can’t! I CAN’T.

So, I’m not even going to try to punch this up. I won’t try to make this better than it already is, because there’s no point. I’m just going to lay it out.

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Here’s how Trump owned himself online today.

If you’re not familiar with HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, all you have to know for the sake of this story is that (fictional) Larry David is an asshole. The thing he wants most is to just be left the hell alone, and he doesn’t care what he has to do or how people see him in order to make that happen.

In the season 10 premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry discovers the power of the MAGA hat: if you wear a MAGA hat, people will generally fuck off. He calls it a “great people repellent.” Obviously, this is a power he wields with reckless abandon. In one scene, he cuts off a biker while driving. The biker loses his whole shit and speeds up to David’s driver-side window, screaming profanities, ready to kick his ass. Larry then whips out his MAGA hat and the biker immediately eases off.

The only way this satire could be more on the nose is if Larry David looked into the camera after and said, “That shitty, unhinged man on the motorcycle left me alone after I put on the MAGA hat because he saw that I, too, am a shitty, unhinged person, and he recognized our bond, as shit-kin.”

But Trump tweeted it out anyway, because, I mean, of course he did.

So, okay, not only did he not understand that he was blatantly being made fun of, he swung so far the other way that his honest-to-god take-away from that clip was “TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP.” Stunning.

Thank you, Mr. President, for dunking on yourself so beautifully that we don’t even have to.

In Idaho, parents may obtain an exemption based solely on personal beliefs, a loophole closed by California law.

Via the trashy subreddit,  where the discussion thread offers potential responses.

The father said he was scared he would not see his daughter again so he made up the abduction story.

All four federal prosecutors have withdrawn from the case against Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, after a decision by top Justice Department officials to reduce the government's recommended sentence against him.

From prank calls to tech failures, here's how the Iowa caucuses "broke down in every way possible."

The nation's two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students' mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.

A Roseville cab driver helped a 92-year-old woman not get scammed out of thousands of dollars, police said Tuesday.

The request comes days after President Donald Trump fired two major impeachment witnesses.

A gust of 209 mph was recorded atop a California peak on Sunday, a potential record that wowed forecasters monitoring a cold storm moving south through the state.

We created this meme a while ago using an image sent in by one of our Facebook group members,  It was created as a laugh but since it went viral, the requests for this pattern have been crazy!

So crazy we couldn’t ignore you anymore,  so after some effort we found a crochet version that just may suit your wacky style,   and the best thing is it is  Free and can be downloaded here. 

We have also found this one on Etsy

Of course, this post wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t include more Chicken patterns right? Check these Chicken crochet patterns our on Etsy.

During a lecture Q&A, Jay-Z explained why he and Beyoncé sat during the national anthem.

As the final seconds ticked off the clock in Super Bowl LIV, President Donald Trump tweeted a congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs.

A family in Louisiana is lucky to have escaped injury when their home went up in flames Sunday night, but it's what was left standing that caught the eye of firefighters.

With his handmade keychains that he sold for $5 each, Keoni raised more than $4,000 to erase the lunch debt of students from his school and six others.

The little PAWS

It’s impossible to rank dogs and we shouldn’t even try. All dogs are good, end of discussion. However, it is possible to rank the best features of dogs, but it’s not easy. The snoots, especially when they do that twitchy thing in their sleep? When the tips of their tongues just barely stick out of their mouths? The little pads of their paws that look like koala bears? (It’s true, look at your dog’s paws right now, they look like tiny koalas) Razor-sharp puppy teeth? There are so many wonderful things!! But I think we can all agree on what takes the number one spot.

Fluffy. Corgi. Butts.

LOOK AT THAT WIGGLY BUTT.

Fluffy corgi butts are probably the only thing to have ever made me go, “HEHEHEHEHEHE,” out loud and I’m not ashamed to admit that. In fact, they’re so loved by so many people that one bakery in Japan was inspired to create Corgi butt bread.

I guess you could just call them Corgi buns.

The bakery is called Utiwapayna and its located in Sapporo. And maybe it’s just me, but jam and custard-filled buns shaped like fluffy dog butts seems like a perfectly reasonable excuse for an impromptu vacation to Japan.

The photo on the right is at age 41.

A former child actor, who has been in movies like “The Mighty Ducks” and “Heavyweights,” was arrested in Marysville in connection with a home break-in, police said Tuesday.

You know who doesn't need the protection of fictional flaming swords? Innocent people.

Would you put an emoji on your license plate? 🚗 If passed, this Vermont bill would let drivers do just that.

In 1972 I was in the first year of my first full-time job when my 1966 Ford began to sputter on the highway, then died and wouldn't restart.  I had it towed to a mechanic, who discovered that someone had poured sugar into my gas tank.  The cost to redrill the cylinders and clean the fuel system was more than the value of the car, so I sold it for basically scrap metal.

I had little savings and my salary was only $5,200/year, so I had to quickly find something cheap and reliable to get me to work.   I walked to a nearby Volkswagen dealership and was granted a loan to purchase their basic not-even-a-radio Beetle for IIRC less than $2,000.  As part of the deal, the salesperson taught me how to drive a stick shift.

That lemon yellow Beetle did its job for five years, never failing to get me where I needed to go.  When it came time to sell and I put the Polaroid above on the wall at my workplace, I discovered that people in Dallas, Texas weren't eager to buy a car with no air conditioning.  So I sold it to my mom up in Minnesota.  She drove it another 6-8 years from the distant western suburbs of Minneapolis to get to her downtown job as a burn unit nurse at the county hospital, including through every winter snowstorm.  She was so delighted with it that when she traded it in, she chose another Volkswagen.

I was reminded of this old VW when I encountered a Marketwatch article saying that the road to riches should be driven in a cheap car ("Buying new cars is like taking $40,000 and setting it on fire.")  I totally agree.

This is parenting done right

Originally published January 24, 2020

I don’t know for sure because I haven’t done it, but becoming a parent has got to be one of the scariest journeys to embark on. The process of growing a tiny person inside your body?? Nightmare fuel. And even if you’re not the one doing the incubating, becoming responsible for a whole person?? Making sure it’s watered and fed and clean?? Keeping it alive and being liable for it??? For like, YEARS???? My palms are sweaty just thinking about it. Now imagine on top of that, having your tiny human come into the world before it’s completely ready?? TERRIFYING! And, unfortunately, all too common.

Matt Mac’s son Ryan was born nine weeks ahead of schedule, weighing just three pounds, and had to spend the first six weeks of his life in a NICU with his parents unable to do anything but wait by his side.

This is a happy story, I promise.

Ryan’s parents’ optimism never waivered. Instead of saying he was premature they joked that he was just “advanced” — which inspired Matt to create a whole series of photos of their son doing all sorts of very “advanced” things once they brought him home. (See I told you this was a happy story)

According to Matt each photo took around 20 minutes to shoot, and most of the work went into setting up the scene and arranging the props. Once everything was set, either Matt or his wife would hold baby Ryan in the scene for the photo, and through a lot of photoshop wizardry, Matt would then edit themselves out of the photo and adjust or add in the placement of props.

In other words, don’t worry — the baby isn’t actually holding an axe.

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