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- Happy birthday Keef!
- CBS has denied former CEO Les Moonves his $120 million severance after an investigation that determined "there are grounds to terminate for cause, including his willful and material misfeasance, violation of Company policies, and breach of his employment contract, as well as his willful failure to cooperate fully with the Company’s investigation."
- A Florida man tried to pay for his meal at McDonald's with a bag of weed.
- Do you bake to deal with your anxiety?
- Sick raccoons possibly infected with distemper have been spotted wandering around the Prospect Park area.
- Check out what everyone else was reading this year with Chartbeat's list of most engaging stories of 2018.
- The White House is signaling that it will back down on Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown.
- The Ringer has a really interesting longread about immigrants working in the Chinese restaurant industry in America and the trade-offs they’ve made.
- Of course Cardi B is the only person who can make Carpool Karaoke genuinely delightful.
- In the latest sign that modernity has gone way too far, Instagram stars are now posting fake sponsorship content.
- If you're really going to claim that the "world's most successful people" start their days at 4 a.m., then you probably should define what you consider success—otherwise you're just going to annoy everyone.
- Finally, someone made a podcast for me about The National.
- And finally, please sir, giveittome: the last lick, I need it, my family is starving:
Published Dec 18, 2018
Modified Dec 18, 2018
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