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- Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem and chastised anyone who doesn't, was captured on video fidgeting, shuffling, finger-pointing and generally acting like an over-caffeinated 10-year-old during the national anthem at his own Mar-a-Lago Super Bowl watch party.
- Why did Jeff Bezos hold a crazy public competition for Amazon HQ2? According to Bloomberg, it was because he was jealous of Elon Musk.
- The Times had a good piece this weekend about the erosion of shared spaces with the proliferations of mobile ordering.
- Gritty is innocent! Gritty has been exonerated! Long live Gritty!
- Hilton Als gets straight to the point in his New Yorker piece about Louis C.K.'s return to the stage: "The audience seemed less interested in narrative and nuance than in living out a kind of revenge fantasy against thinking."
- Rush Limbaugh announced that he has advanced lung cancer.
- Mel Magazine talked to several people who worked on Wild Wild West to figure out what went wrong.
- A seal was filmed "clapping" its flippers in the wild for the first time.
- Rental prices on more than 1.5 million Berlin apartments will be frozen or lowered for five years in an attempt to slow gentrification.
- A “live capture” of a stage performance of Hamilton, featuring the original cast, is coming to movie theaters on Oct. 15th, 2021.
- This German artist created "traffic jams" by pulling 99 phones down empty streets, making it look like they were gridlocked on Google Maps.
- An NYPD officer in the Bronx is adopting a kitten that he and his partner found in a garbage can.
- And finally, look at this brilliant sled dog:
Published Feb 3, 2020
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