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Free Ride Friday
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- ROAD RAGE 101
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- Jun 8, 2026
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- 3692
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Colokum Craft Coffee Use the Promo Code [WSMG15] For 15% of any purchase through June 2026 Boomer Bunker Dischord Become a Bunker Dweller Aaron Kickstarter Help Aaron with his Spicy Kickstarter 564 Free Ride Friday National Day: National Moonshine Day — A nod to homemade spirits and American distilling history (enjoy responsibly). Birthday: Mark Wahlberg (born 1971) — Actor and producer (The Departed, Ted, Boogie Nights). This Day in History: 968 — Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles moments after winning the California Democratic primary. ---- Free Ride (Fox News) Knoebels Amusement Resort opened July 4, 1926, celebrates its centennial this year. In an era of pricey theme parks and gated admission, one Pennsylvania amusement park is still letting guests in for free. Knoebels opened its doors on July 4, 1926 — and will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, as the nation celebrates America's semiquincentennial. Park owner Brian Knoebel, 52, recently told PA Local he had to "had to pinky-swear" to never change the free-admission model. "It's who we are," he said. "It’s that traditional park." ----- Getting Screwed (Not the Bee 8/25 and AP News 6/26) U.S. reports first human-infected screwworm case. It was a Guatemalan migrant. The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday, the first time in decades that the parasite with flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation’s cattle industry and only the third time it’s appeared in the U.S. in that time. Screwworms are nasty little buggers. The screwworm fly uses mammalian hosts to facilitate its disgusting lifestyle; females "lay 250 - 500 eggs in the exposed flesh of warm-blooded animals. The larvae hatch and burrow into the surrounding tissue as…