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Extra, Extra: How To Have A "Bestseller" Without Trying Too Hard
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 26, 2016
Modified Feb 26, 2016
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- Jon Snow is having a semi-charmed kind of life.
- A Brooklyn rabbi was sentenced to two months in jail for molesting teenage boys.
- Melissa Harris-Perry has walked off her MSNBC show: "I will not be used as a tool for their purposes," she said. "I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head."
- The WTC Oculus will get an opening ceremony after all.
- A wayward deer broke through a window and caused havoc at a NJ school.
- Eva Moskowitz offered "a rare, albeit brief, apology" in a private memo to staff.
- If you like all things rock 'n' roll, you should check out Robert Pollard's excellent new album, Of Course You Are.
- Runaway unicorn never coming back.
- Good news Trekkies: longtime Star Trek writer Nicholas Meyer has joined the new CBS Trek show.
- A man put a photo of his foot on Amazon and it became a "bestseller."
- A drunk Chicago man had a glass-shattering tantrum in a Kips Bay pizza place.
- New Orleans is the New Brooklyn, or the Better Brooklyn, or something.
- And finally, the pup loves to go snow tumbling:
Source: Guard dog takes a break to go sledding! by OldManFarm on Rumble
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