The scalpers, dubbed “Grinch bots,” are the same groups that bought up concert tickets and sold them for exponentially more than the original price on third party sites. They have now unleashed their software on the season’s hottest selling toys, Senator Schumer said in a statement on Sunday. “Grinch bots cannot be allowed to steal […]
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Bah humbug! US Air Force tweets Santa isn't real before backtracking claim
Published time: 26 Oct, 2017 11:29 Edited time: 26 Oct, 2017 11:34 Christmas is just around the corner, but don’t expect the US Air Force to leave cookies and milk out for Santa Claus. The air wing tweeted that Saint Nick isn’t real while mediating a friendly debate between two bases. It later retracted the […]
Baaa, Humbug: Can Americans Find an Appetite for Lamb?
A pair of NPR-listening former Clevelanders, Kathy and Jeff Bielek, take a stroll around their “retirement farm” in Wooster, where some 40 sheep graze in lush fields that are quintessentially Ohioan when compared with the mega-ranches of the West. Small-scale enterprises like this one, which is average size by Ohio standards, dot the state’s rolling […]