On The Beat- Tuesday, July 7, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Does anyone else think that Facebook ads popping up like Youtube Ads resemble a burst appendix while in the slow suffocating grips a goiter attack?… Belgium won over the USA. I’m very disappointed my team lost. Even more disappointed than not being invited to Taylor and Travis’s wedding. I thought we were all tight… In Berkley County, SC over July 4th weekend, there were 152 citations handed out, 9 grilling citations, two BUI’s, and 1 UFO abduction… Robotic mowers seem like a good idea until you witness their obese homeowners limp from the couch to grab their doordash delivery of fast food. Maybe they’ll invent a robot to bring the food right to them on the couch… Polk State President could draw $470,000 with a fat bonus. In all my years of schooling and multiple degrees, never once have I ever heard of the state of Polk. I guess the joke is on me… Did you know that a Root Beer Float was called a “Black Cow” at diners on route 66. Today it would be called “dirty soda” at $35 a pint… The Mega Millions jackpot tonight was $576 million, which means if you won you take home $150… Hot Dogs were once banned because people thought they consisted of real dogs. But hot dogs date back to the time of Homer when they were made from the scraps of…well…something delicious. Womp, womp… In a neighborhood in probably Chicago, teens shoot fireworks at each other, and authorities let them in a push to clean up the neighborhood… A severe storm in Lake County, MN, leaves 6,400 without electricity and for a while, life finally makes sense… I watch Bandana.Eats1 compete in a 20lb. Loaded Hot Cheeto eatimg challenge and I’m the one who gets sick… In Cleveland local developers fed to black bears in Garfield Heights, Pepper Pike and, most recently, Cuyahoga Heights. And it seems the trend might be spreading nationwide… Lion’s Mane jellyfish appear in records numbers along the Massachusetts coastline and residents blame ICE… In Alaska 254 bears have been murder by hillbillies in helicopters. They thought they were big foot… A handful of people attemd the Ayatollah’s funeral procession for the free beer… Sidewalk project in Waiakea aims to make it safer for kids to get to school by not having to walk through traffic. Genius… We present. You decide…