Friday January 14: Daily Links

FRIDAY 1.14


NEWS STORIES

 



Glenn Beck Has Covid Again, Here's Why He's Concerned

The famous conservative talk show host says he has Covid, again, and is concerned that it is moving into his lungs. It’s starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing. I’m on all the medications and treatments and everything else, so,” he said. He’s unvaxxed, taking every drug he’s ever heard of, and he said, he’s a fatty fat fatso.

Well you’ve got one thing right….

Read more at The Daily Beast


Transplant Surgeon Who Left His Signature on Organs is No Longer a Surgeon

A transplant doctor used an “electric beam” to burn his initials into organs he transplanted. Another doctor noticed the strange signature when the organ failed a week later and he had to go in for further surgery. He claims he did it to relieve stress, and this week a disciplinary committe relieved him of the stress of practicing medicine altogher.

It wasn’t so much the initials that bothered them, it was that he also wrote 2 good 2 be forgotten.

Read more at MSN.


California Gov Denies Sirhan Sirhan Parole Parole, Again

The man who assassinated Robert Kennedy is staying in jail because Governor Newsom doesn’t want to let him out.

So much for liberal California

Read more at NPR


Carjackings Skyrocket in NYC

Not too long ago, it seemed like carjackings were a thing of the past, but in the last few years, the crime has increased by more than 300% in New York City.

Why don’t they just take an Uber?

Read more at nypost.


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SPORTS



Turns Out Joe Judge Was Just Throwing A Part For All His Coaches

Ok, so maybe Joe Judge wasn’t eating five entire pizzas and 70 beers by himself. MAYBE he was actually throwing a shin dig for his coaches. This man is owed an apology.

Read more on Twitter.


Pittsburgh Running Back Deletes His Response to Big Ben on Twitter

Najee Harris, a young running back for the Steelers was floored by Ben Rothlesberger’s recent interview saying that their team sucks and doesn’t belong in the playoffs.

Just remind your teammates you don’t have to block for him this weekend.



Josh Allen May Use Viagaa To Help Him Win This Weekend

Bills quarterback Josh Allen has been advised that taking Viagra could help him to stay warmer during the game this weekend, when temperatures are expected to hit rare single digits.

This is scary news for his center.

Read more at SB Nation



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Britney Spears Addresses Her Sister On Twitter

Britney Spears posted a long meandering rant to Twitter addressing her sister’s book. But the big take away here is it sounds like Brit’s got the ‘rona and no one is doing anything about it. She needs a vax asap.

Read the rant on Twitter.


Jon Stewart Takes on the National Anthem

Mark Cuban stopped playing the national anthem before Mavericks games long ago, so after their conversation for Stewart’s podcast, the topic came up. Jon said the idea of having an anthem at sports events was a “weird ritual”.

Why are you just getting around to this now John. You’re sixty.

Read more at mediaite.


Jim Belushi Says John Suffered from CTE

This week on an episode of 10 Questions with Kyle Brandt, Jim Belushi said he believed John Belushi suffered injuries in his football playing days, and he believes his brother suffered from CTE. He also said that if John had stopped his drug use at marijuana, he would still be alive today.

Hey Jim have you ever heard of diabetes.?

Read more at mediaite.


Logan Paul Bought Over $3 Million of Fake Pokemon Cards

The fighter was pretty pissed when he found out that the first edition pokemon cards he bought for three and half million bucks were actually just GI Joe cards in Pokemon packaging. He did get his money back but it was a stressful experience.

I dunno…Fake GI Joe cards are cooler than real Pokémon cards

Read more at tmz.



Zach Galifianakis Blames Trump on Celebrity culture

Well Zach at least you’re not adding to the problem.

Read more at The Hill



VIRAL & TRENDING



Train Robberies Are All The Rage

One LA resident decided to check out the reports of constant train robberies and found a ton of empty, ravaged Amazon boxes by the train tracks. Someone find out what the James Gang is up to right now.

Watch the video on Twitter.


MGTOW Dudes Are Becoming a Problem on Instagram

Reddit kicked out the creeps known as red pill dudes cause they were too white supremacyish. So now they’re darkening nstagram going under the moniker Men Going Their Own Way.

How masculine. You belong to an instagram club .

Read more at melmagazine.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Here Are The 50 Most Popular Fast Food Franchises In America

Eat This ranked the top 50 fast food franchises in America by popularity. Spoiler alert, Long John Silvers is a lot higher than any of us would have guessed.

Read more at Eat This.


Face Masks Make People More Attractive?

A new study claims that both men and women are perceived to be more attractive when wearing a face mask, particularly the standard blue surgical masks.

Unfortunately they don’t make attractive people look more attractive. Just the ugly ones.

Read more at The Guardian.



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