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Brickbats: March 2025

yesterday 7

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Brickbat: Stay Put

yesterday 8

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Brickbat: None of Your Business

Brickbat: None of Your Business
previous day 6

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Brickbat: Keys to the Kingdom

Brickbat: Keys to the Kingdom
tuesday 10

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Brickbat: Crappy Conditions

Brickbat: Crappy Conditions
10.02.2025 5

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Brickbat: License Lag

Brickbat: License Lag
07.02.2025 3

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Brickbat: Father of the Year?

Brickbat: Father of the Year?
06.02.2025 4

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Brickbat: Start From the Beginning

Brickbat: Start From the Beginning
05.02.2025 6

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Brickbat: Donut Disrespect the Police

Brickbat: Donut Disrespect the Police
04.02.2025 6

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Brickbat: Take a Picture, but Don't Keep It

Brickbat: Take a Picture, but Don't Keep It
03.02.2025 9

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Brickbat: Ask Questions Later

Brickbat: Ask Questions Later
31.01.2025 9

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Brickbat: Coding Error

Brickbat: Coding Error
30.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Have Credit Card, Will Travel

Brickbat: Have Credit Card, Will Travel
29.01.2025 30

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Brickbat: Keep Your Hands to Yourself

Brickbat: Keep Your Hands to Yourself
28.01.2025 8

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Brickbat: Fox in the Henhouse

Brickbat: Fox in the Henhouse
27.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Sticky Fingers

Brickbat: Sticky Fingers
24.01.2025 5

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Brickbat: Sobering Allegations

Brickbat: Sobering Allegations
23.01.2025 2

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Brickbat: Back of the Queue

22.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Keep Both Hands on the Wheel

21.01.2025 5

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Brickbat: Strong Arm of the Law

20.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Lawn Enforcement

17.01.2025 4

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Brickbat: Inside Man

16.01.2025 7

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Brickbat: Quittin' Time

15.01.2025 30

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Brickbat: A Nightmare Before Christmas (and After Halloween)

14.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Driven To Drink

13.01.2025 8

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Brickbat: Multiple Failures

10.01.2025 9

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Brickbat: Spiked

09.01.2025 3

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Brickbat: Window Pain

Taliban Charles Oliver | 1.8.2025 4:00 AM The Taliban has banned windows in residential buildings to prevent people from seeing women inside. The...

08.01.2025 6

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Brickbat: Wrong To Repair

Homeowners Charles Oliver | 1.7.2025 4:00 AM St. Louis officials are investigating after residents say the city billed them for home repairs they...

07.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Overcorrection

Prisons Charles Oliver | 1.6.2025 4:00 AM New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the state corrections department to fire 14 workers after the...

06.01.2025 8

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Brickbats: February 2025

Politics Charles Oliver and Peter Bagge | From the February 2025 issue A former middle school teacher in Washington state was charged with unlawful...

05.01.2025 10

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Brickbat: Getting Hands-On

Police Abuse Charles Oliver | 1.3.2025 4:00 AM Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has intervened to dismiss a felony assault charge against...

03.01.2025 2

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Brickbat: Single-Use Stipulation

Plastic Bags Charles Oliver | 1.2.2025 4:00 AM The Napa County, California, Board of Supervisors has banned single-use plastic bags and utensils....

02.01.2025 3

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Brickbat: Double Down

Police Charles Oliver | 1.1.2025 4:00 AM Former Titusville, Florida, Police Officer Josh Payne has been sentenced to five years probation after...

01.01.2025 3

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Brickbat: Giving Spirit

Property Rights Charles Oliver | 12.31.2024 4:00 AM Loletha Hale ended up in a Georgia jail after trying to remove a squatter from her house. It...

31.12.2024 10

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Brickbat: Left Las Vegas

Murder Charles Oliver | 12.30.2024 4:00 AM A federal jury has awarded more than $34 million to Kirstin Blaise Lobato, who served nearly 16 years in...

30.12.2024 3

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Brickbat: Empire State of Mind

Police Abuse Charles Oliver | 12.27.2024 4:00 AM A U.S. Department of Justice report found that the police department in Mount Vernon, New York, had...

27.12.2024 10

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Brickbat: For the Birds

Police Abuse Charles Oliver | 12.26.2024 4:00 AM Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Joseph Benza III faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading...

26.12.2024 7

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Brickbat: Blowin' in the Wind

Zoning Charles Oliver | 12.25.2024 4:00 AM Volunteers in western North Carolina trying to help people left homeless by Hurricane Helene say local...

25.12.2024 40

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Brickbat: Dislike and Unsubscribe

Privacy Charles Oliver | 12.24.2024 4:00 AM When Courtney Teague called Atlanta 311, a number for non-emergency city services, she did not know...

24.12.2024 4

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Brickbat: Going Up…and Up

Taxes Charles Oliver | 12.23.2024 4:00 AM In Pennsylvania, the Delaware County Council voted 4–1 to raise property taxes by 23 percent. The council...

23.12.2024 3

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Brickbat: Yo Momma

Teachers Charles Oliver | 12.20.2024 4:00 AM BeTreylin Elder, a teacher at Georgia's DeRenne Middle School, has resigned after being caught on...

20.12.2024 5

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Brickbat: Tipping the Scale

Military Charles Oliver | 12.19.2024 4:00 AM Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth fired Gen. Charles Hamilton for improperly intervening in the...

19.12.2024 6

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Brickbat: DIY EMT

Public Health Charles Oliver | 12.18.2024 4:00 AM Emergency dispatchers in parts of England have been told to ask some people requesting ambulance...

18.12.2024 8

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Brickbat: No Free Parking

Parking Charles Oliver | 12.17.2024 4:00 AM San Francisco officials estimate the city will lose 14,000 parking places—5 percent of its total—when a...

17.12.2024 3

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Brickbat: Blast Off in the Comments

Campus Free Speech Charles Oliver | 12.16.2024 4:00 AM Leigha Lemoine has sued South Carolina's Horry-Georgetown Technical College, claiming it...

16.12.2024 4

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Brickbats: January 2025

Politics Charles Oliver and Peter Bagge | From the January 2025 issue Sandy Snakenberg, a San Diego street performer whose act involves blowing...

14.12.2024 10

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Brickbat: A Bridge Too Far

Military Charles Oliver | 12.13.2024 4:00 AM Brazilian military police officer Luan Felipe Alves has been arrested after he was caught on video...

13.12.2024 8

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Brickbat: Neither Rain, Snow, Heat, nor DUI

Drunk driving Charles Oliver | 12.12.2024 4:00 AM Authorities in Forsyth County, Georgia, have charged U.S. Postal Service carrier Darrell Cox with...

12.12.2024 10

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Brickbat: Butt Out

Cigarettes Charles Oliver | 12.11.2024 4:00 AM In England, Natalie Walton got a ticket in the mail at her parents' home in Kent. The ticket assessed...

11.12.2024 10

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