Thursday June 25: Daily Links

THURSDAY 6.25


NEWS STORIES

 



Mount Rushmore Fireworks a Good Idea !?

You would think fireworks at Mount Rushmore would be a fun day except for the dry conditions have officials worried about fires.

Still that could look spectacular.

Read more at argusleader.com.


Brazil is a Covid Nightmare

Overflowing hospitals. Widespread corruption. Mass graves. And then it gets even worse.

Just keep Pele safe.

Read more at bloomberg.com.


Walmart Under Fire For Selling All Lives Matter T-Shirts

Walmart is under fire for selling ‘All Lives Matter’ T-shirts on their website. The site also features Blue Lives Matter, Motorcycle Lives Matter, and Homeless Lives Matter merchandise including booty shorts. Walmart says its a 3rd party site responsible and is denying all direct responsibility. If they really want to make their argument clear, they should ask the 3rd party to start selling Target T-shirts.

Read more at tmz.com.


You Can Own Al Capone's Childhood Home In Brooklyn!

Al Capone’s childhood home in Park Slope, Brooklyn is on sale for $2.9 million. Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a still so you can bootleg your own booze.

Read more at nypost.com.


United States Has Biggest Single Day Reporting Of New Covid Cases

Most of the country is seeing its highest rate of new covid cases and we just beat our last daily record that was set back in April. The reopening is going great!

Read more at washingtonpost.com.


Dozens Of Secret Service Agents Quarantined After Tulsa Rally

Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents have had to self quarantine after two of them tested positive for Covid after the Tulsa rally. Which means the B squad is now looking after Trump let’s hope they don’t bring him back down to the bunker for another “inspection”.

Read more at stamfordadvocate.


Best Virtual Tours Of National Parks, Zoos and Other Landmarks that Each State Has To Offer

This summer you don’t have to risk Covid to see the best spots in the country.

Kids, you’ll never forget zooming the second largest ball twine on the way to Zooming the Grand Canyon.

Read more at theactivetimes.com.



SPORTS



Dallas Cowboy Has A Run In With 2 Real Bears

Dallas Cowboys HaHa Clinton-Dix had a near run-in with two Bears while riding his electric scooter. A mother bear and her cub were wandering down a narrow street when the Cowboys safety came riding in the opposite direction. Clinton-Dix spots the bears, flips off his scooter and quickly runs away. The bears were just as frightened and runs away also. Cowboys officials denied reports that Clinton-Dix broke the team’s 100 yard dash record during the incident.

Read more at people.com.


Looks Like The Wilpon's Will Be Selling The Mets By 2020

The Mets are a dumpster file and they’re hemorrhaging cash. The Wilpon’s need to pawn them off to someone else by the end of 2020. They need to bring back crazy Eddie to move this franchise.

Read more at nypost.


Jay Cutler's Really Bored

Divorce has obviously sent Cutler off the deep end. Or maybe he’s always been this much of a dork.



Multiple Teams Are Interested In Kaepernick

It’s now being reported that multiple NFL teams are interested in signing Colin Kaepernick and they’re just waiting until closer to training camp so they can work him out. All it took was nationwide protests to get Kaep a job interview.

Read more at cbssports.


Curt Schilling Quits Twitter

Curt Schilling spent Tuesday tweeting that Bubba Wallace was “Jussie Smollet 2.0” and arguing with Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer. He got so worked up he disabled his account. Trevor had called him “ButtCurt” and referenced Schilling’s failed attempt at making a video game company. There are some things you just don’t bring up dude.

Read more at mediaite.com.



ENTERTAINMENT


Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 10 Years In

You don’t meet people who don’t like Edgar Wright’s cool little masterpiece Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Did you know it was a flop?

It also gives you another reason to hate Seth MacFarlane, so bonus.

Read more at ew.com.


Jenny Slate Steps Away From ‘Big Mouth’, No Longer Wants to Take the Role from a Black Actor

Jenny Slate has chosen to quit her voice over gig on Big Mouth portraying a mixed race character stating that black characters should be played by black performers. Kristen Bell has also announced she will no longer be voicing a biracial character on Apple TV’s Central Park.

You couldn’t get that out of Hank Azaria!

Read more at variety.com.


Val Kilmer‘s Best “Genre Film” Roles

Apparently genre only means SciFi and fantasy which is a travesty, because if you don’t consider western a genre, then you’re no daisy.

Read more at io9.gizmodo.com


Twilight Zone ‘To Serve Man’ Sequel Photos Revealed

Season 2 of CBS All Access Twilight Zone reboot will be feature a sequel to the classic 1962 episode ‘To Serve Man’. The network released photos to show that the Kanamites are back in ‘You Might Also Like’ which follows housewife Mrs Warren (Gretchen Mol) looking forward to acquiring ‘Egg’, a device that ‘promises to make everything bette for everyone forever’, but hides an ulterior motive. You would think that intellectually superior aliens would have upgraded their wardrobe in the last 55 years.

Read more at ew.com.


Tenacious D Reveal Influences Behind Their Song ‘Tribute’

Tenacious D said that Metallica’s ‘One’, and ‘Stairway To Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin were the main influence behind their 2001 hit song, ‘Tribute’. Lead singer Jack Black added that ‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia’ by The Charlie Daniels Band greatly inspired by the song’s lyrics. Black would not reveal whether or not his infamous TikTok dancing debut was inspired by Buffalo Bill from ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’.

Read more at nme.com.


GOING VIRAL




Confirmed ! Loch Ness Monster is Real!

“And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch”

Via toofab.




Young Woman and Squirrel have a Modern Day Disney Princess Friendship

This new Broad City reboot is pretty weird.

Via digg.


Florida Woman Gives Convincing Argument Against Wearing Masks

If this doesn’t convince you, nothing will.



STUDY SAYS


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