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All Right, Who Stepped on Peanut Butter Floor?

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Child Damages Mark Rothko Painting Estimated at €50m in Dutch Museum
Euronews | 29/04/2025 | David Mouriquand

… The costs of the repair and who will be footing the bill remain unknown.

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has previously asked visitors to cover repair costs following damage to artworks. In 2011, a tourist who accidentally stepped on “Pindakaasvloer” (“Peanut Butter Floor”), a conceptual piece by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, was asked to pay for restoration.

Alternate Title: Bernie Sanders Calls Obamacare a Catastrophic Failure

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Bernie Sanders: Democrats Lack ‘Vision for the Future’
Breitbart | 27 Apr 2025 | Pam Key

… (NBC’s Meet The Press) Host Kristen Welker said, “Let’s talk about what you have called your oligarchy, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have been crisscrossing the country warning of an oligarchy. Senator, you told the New York Times, ‘One of the aspects of this is to get people to get engaged in the political process and run as independents outside of the Democratic Party.’ As someone who twice ran in the Democratic presidential primary are you trying to strengthen the Democratic Party or Senator, are you trying to start a third party?” […]

… (Sanders) continued, “What Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future. How are we going to provide a decent standard of living for a younger generation where everything being equal will be poorer than their parents? How do we repair a broken heath care system? How do we deal with the corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires to control both political parties? Those are some of the issues that need to be discussed, and we are going out around the country right now asking people, working people, run for office. You want to run as a Democrat? Great. You want to run as an Independent? That’s great, but you’ve got to get involved in the political process because right now the two-party system is failing the working class of this country.” 

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Zounds! Of Zilence?

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“Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.”

— Shakespeare

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Your challenge: to create a new word or phrase that begins with Z.

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Tomorrow, we start in with ordinal numbers, 1 through infinity.

Straight Line of the Day: What Would You Do With 5,000 Ants?

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Belgian Teenagers Found With 5,000 Ants to Be Sentenced by Kenyan Court in Two Weeks
Euronews | 23/04/2025 | Gavin Blackburn

The two men had entered Kenya on a tourist visa and were staying in a guest house in the western town of Naivasha. Their lawyer said that her clients did not know what they were doing was illegal.

Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at more than €8,000 and allegedly destined for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two weeks, a Kenyan magistrate has said. Njeri Thuku, sitting at the court in Kenya’s main airport, said she would not rush the case but would take time to review environmental impact and psychological reports filed in court before passing sentence on 7 May.

Is This Something Kirk Can Use in His Fight Against The Gorn?

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The orange-brown smoke seen in the exhaust of some missiles, particularly those using hydrazine-based fuels, is primarily due to the presence of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). This reddish-brown gas is a byproduct of the breakdown of dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4), which is often used as an oxidizer in these rocket engines. When N2O4 decomposes, it forms NO2, which is responsible for the distinctive color of the exhaust plume.

— Seen on the internet. Now my head hurts.