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  • I Agree With Charles Barkley: Isaiah Thomas Crying Before the Game Made Me Uncomfortable, Too 

    Just a few days before the Boston Celtics were to take on the Chicago Bulls, star guard Isaiah Thomas’ 22-year-old sister, Chyna Thomas, was killed in a car crash. The news was shocking. Isaiah Thomas was considered a game-time decision, and in a sports trope that has become as sadistic as it is celebrated, Thomas…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 17, 2017
  • Mike Pence Issues Stern Warning to North Korea in a Dumb Leather Jacket

    You know Vice President Mike Pence spends nights at home reliving scenes from Top Gun. He probably demands that his staffers call him Maverick and secretly refers to President TrumPutin as Goose. On Monday, Pence arrived at the gateway to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in a show of U.S. resolve a day…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 17, 2017
  • We Are on the Brink of War With North Korea and Trump Is at Mar-a-Lago, Again!

    This president is the most vacationing-ass president in the history of presidents. His orange ass has been in office fewer than 100 days, and in that time he’s gone on seven trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Seven! Currently, when his orange ass isn’t tweeting random shit or dropping the “Mother of All Bombs”…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 14, 2017
  • Jay Pharoah on His SNL Departure: I’m Not a ‘Yes N–ga’

    Jay Pharoah believes that he’s more than just impressions, but Saturday Night Live didn’t want his jokes—the show wanted his voices until it didn’t, and then SNL let him go. Pharoah’s Barack Obama impersonation was pitch-perfect, but once the president left office, the sketch-comedy show apparently didn’t see much of a need for the funny…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 14, 2017
  • Paramount Wants to Make Coming to America Sequel, but It Won’t Work Without Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall

    There are a few black legacies that shouldn’t be touched: the Obama family, Martin Luther King Jr., the importance of Timberland in the ’90s and Coming to America. Well, it looks like the last one won’t be surviving the test of time, since Paramount has reportedly signed the original writers of the 1988 classic to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 14, 2017
  • ‘Concrete and Corroborative Evidence of Collusion’ Between Trump Associates and Russia, Source Says   

    We all know that President Vladimir TrumPutin is in bed with Mother Russia. Whether it’s photos of 45 with Russian hookers or Russia’s cable-installation bill for an extra cable box in the basement of the White House with the RT News package, we all know that something is amiss when it comes to Russian ties…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 14, 2017
  • Stay Woke: While the US Was Bombing Afghanistan, Trump Was Secretly Signing Bill to Block Planned Parenthood Money

    President Vladimir TrumPutin is a lot of things, but camera shy isn’t one of them. Since taking office, he’s had the news crews around him every time he’s signed one of his 1,000 executive orders. Yet, on Thursday, as news broke that the U.S. had just dropped the “Mother of All Bombs” on an Afghanistan…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 13, 2017
  • The US Just Dropped the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on Afghanistan

    As if America didn’t have enough problems to worry about, the U.S. military has just dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb on Afghanistan. Four U.S. military officials with direct knowledge of the mission told told Fox 6 Now that around 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the military dropped a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 13, 2017
  • Syrian President Claims He Didn’t Use Chemical Weapons Against His Own People. Then Who Did?

    Now, this is getting interesting. Syrian dictator Bashar Assad claims he didn’t use chemical weapon against his own people, and adds that any reports claiming that he did are fake news. “One hundred percent fabrication,” Assad said in an interview with Agence France-Presse. Assad also claims that his nation “gave up” all of its stored…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 13, 2017
  • Mar-a-Lago’s Kitchen Is Nasty; Cited for 13 Violations Days Before Japanese Prime Minister’s Visit

    Florida restaurant inspectors found 13 violations inside the kitchen of President Vladimir TrumPutin’s Mar-a-Lago playhouse just days before the dictator hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Let’s hope the Japanese prime minister didn’t order the fish, considering that the inspectors cited Mar-a-Lago for housing potentially dangerous raw fish, the Miami Herald reports. The resort was also…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 13, 2017
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