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Lunchtime Photo

2 years 5 months ago
This is a house finch and, um, maybe a yellow warbler feasting away at our bird feeder in the late afternoon sun.
Kevin Drum

Two St. Louis lotto players hit $211K jackpot; 1 ticket unclaimed

2 years 5 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- Two players hit the $211,000 Show Me Cash jackpot on March 8, 2023. One of the players just claimed their $105,500 prize at the lottery's St. Louis regional office. The other ticket remains unclaimed. The winner who already claimed the ticket purchased it at the QuikTrip on Lemay Ferry Road. The other [...]
Joe Millitzer

Why Link Taxes Like Canada’s C-18 Represent An End To An Open Web

2 years 5 months ago
Well, here we go again. For years now, the legacy news industry, often led by lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, have been pushing a bizarre plan to tax links on the internet. The entire rationale for this plan seems to be “news organizations used to be rolling in easy money, they failed to innovate with the […]
Mike Masnick

Narratives of doom get set in stone almost instantly these days. Why?

2 years 5 months ago
Over the past year or two I've commented on three conventional narratives that strike me as dead wrong: The Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster. The CDC's response to COVID-19 was atrocious. Silicon Valley Bank was a time bomb waiting to go off. The common thread for all of these was an almost instant desire to ...continue reading "Narratives of doom get set in stone almost instantly these days. Why?"
Kevin Drum

Victim's Child to St. Louis Serial Killer: 'How Did You Live With this Secret?'

2 years 5 months ago
In 1995, St. Louis County prosecutor Doug Sidel won a life sentence against Gary Muehlberg for murdering an acquaintance named Kenneth “Doc” Atchison whom Muehlberg lured to his house under the pretense of selling him a car. At the time, Sidel had no idea he was putting away an infamous serial killer. At the time prosecutors had no information tying Muehlberg to other crimes, a court spokesperson says.
Ryan Krull

Saint Louis Zoo Is Moving Ben the Bear to Texas

2 years 5 months ago
Much like my exes, the Saint Louis Zoo has decided it cannot handle a strong-willed individual and decided to part ways with Ben the Andean Bear. Ben, who escaped his enclosure twice during his time in St. Louis, will be moved to a zoo in Texas. The zoo is citing his “unique personality” as a reason for the move, which is code for too much to handle.
Jenna Jones