Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges

He’s probably going to run for President, and I doubt that he has any shot at all of being the nominee, let alone winning. But this is a great idea and absolutely has to happen

The average American driver lost nearly $900 and 49 hours to traffic in 2025

That’s two entire days of your life lost to traffic in one year. What would you do if you suddenly had two more free days?

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Tales From the Blue Line - The Roommate Agreement - After landing a suspiciously affordable apartment in Logan Square, a grad student discovers her new roommate is a 90s-obsessed ghost who is less interested in haunting her and more interested in the proper way to label her leftovers.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Roommate Agreement Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• PETA wants to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a hologram - He works one day a year, and literally they just hold him up for the crowd while they read whatever proclamation they decided to make up for him. I think Phil’s doing fine

• A former flight attendant posed as a pilot and received hundreds of free flights, US authorities say - I’m glad they didn’t end up in a situation where they really needed a pilot on any of those flights

• Scientists are building viruses from scratch to fight superbugs - Scientists are playing around with viruses. What could go wrong?

• Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns - Who had “Flesh-Eating Flies” on their Bingo card for January?

• NASA astronaut who was stuck at the space station for months retires within a year of returning - I feel like that would be enough to make me want to retire too. Actually, she just turned 60 and has served with NASA for 27 years, so she probably just thought it was time. She had a pretty amazing career

• Microchip helps reunite family with dog lost for over 10 years - The gritty reboot of Homeward Bound is going to be amazing

• ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. Everyone is saying the same thing - I don’t think they know what they’re getting into. They pelted Santa with snowballs in Philadelphia once

• Delta Flight Returns to Gate After Deicing Fluids Leak Inside Aircraft and ‘Soak’ a Passenger - At least they didn’t have to worry about getting iced

• NH man accused of breaking into homes, pouring queso on TV, furniture - Cheese, that’s a really bad thing to do to someone

• NC Mom Accused of Poisoning 3 at Thanksgiving Dinner - Well, that’s one way to make sure you’ll never be asked to host Thanksgiving Dinner every again