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“After days of intense backlash, most recently from President Donald Trump, Cracker Barrel is scrapping its new minimalist logo.” — CNN

I should have known corporate didn’t have my back from the jump—that busy mess of an old logo was stamped with a registered trademark symbol, while I got branded with a bet-hedging regular trademark symbol. That said, I didn’t think they’d cave in less time than it takes an antsy five-year-old to dump an entire carafe of maple syrup into his mother’s purse. Message received, boss.

You jerks sure like your logos hokey and redundant, don’t you? I mean, it says “Cracker Barrel” and there’s a picture right next to it of a cracker and a barrel. Well, I guess it’s your lucky day, because the powers that be have decided if it’s ’70s-era wood-paneled schlock you want, then by golly, it’s ’70s-era wood-paneled schlock you’ll get. God forbid any of you CB loyalists would have to update your tattoos.

Peeking inside deep-sea rocks has offered a clearer timeline for an oxygen-fueled burst of animal evolution

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High temperatures can alter our bodies at the molecular level

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A new study predicts massive population declines in the Arctic

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I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, creating a beautiful flash across the screen, and, if the TikToks are accurate, a slight puff of acrid smoke emanating from within.

I will replace my child’s Chromebook screen if she slams it over the corner of her desk or on the back of her chair, as if the future of civilization depends on her, a seven-year-old child, creating a pile of electronic waste out of a learning device that operates as the very thing that stands between her and peace of mind.

If, under any circumstances, my daughter douses her school-issued Chromebook in lighter fluid, setting it ablaze to summon evil spirits during the pledge of allegiance, I will furnish the school with a new device.

Book recommendations from staffers.

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Every day, we’re makin’ it slappy here at Slappy Mike’s, and now, we’re finally revealing our secrets. So here’s how we make our crowd favorite: the classic, the one-and-only OG Slappy Sando by Slappy Mike.

First, we get ourselves a fresh, crispy fried chicken fillet. We throw it on a ciabatta roll, pack on some shredded mozzarella, and toss that sucker in a five-hundred-degree oven till it’s all bubbly brown. Then we pull that bad boy out, hit it with some pickled peppers, jicama slaw, and a big ol’ Big Boy Drizzle of Slappy Mike’s Super Secret OG Slappy Sauce.

Oh, but we’re not done.

Once it’s all Slappy’d up, we take the whole-ass sando and top it with sliced onions and five slices of American cheese. We slap it on the griddle and aggressively smash that baby down with a brick. Boom!

Next, we take the smashed sando, wrap it in twenty-five more slices of American cheese, dip the whole thing into Mike’s OG Sriracha Corn Dog batter, and throw that sucker in the deep fryer. Hell yeah.

The “Block the Bombs” bill’s supporters are presenting it as a litmus test for the 2026 midterms.

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Roads in Gaza no longer lead to safety or life, but rather to danger and death. One of the most notorious of these roads is the route to Zikim in the northwestern part of the Strip, which in recent months has turned into a bloody scene that repeats itself daily. Thousands of hungry people rush […]