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A Slap in the Face
ecthompsonmd August 20, 2022

At this year’s Oscars, Chris Rock was the master of ceremonies. As everybody knows, he is a comedian, maybe even the best comedian of his generation. He made a joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, also a movie star. It was a bald joke—a joke about baldness. Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia. This means that she is losing her hair. Her hair is currently cut extremely short. The joke wasn’t that funny, but it’s not unusual for comedians to sometimes miss the mark with a joke. Will Smith became furious. He charged the stage from the audience and slapped

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Hazing in the NFL
ecthompsonmd November 4, 2013

Today a story blew up in the NFL. Richie Incognito, a guard for the Miami Dolphins, has been suspended. It appears that Richie had some issue, problem or a burr up his butt. He called Jonathan Martin, offensive tackle, and left what can only be described as a bizarre voice mail. “Hey, wassup, you half (expletive) piece of (expletive),” according to a transcript obtained by Breer of an Incognito voice mail to Martin. “I saw you on Twitter, you been training 10 weeks. I’ll (expletive) in your (expletive) mouth. I’m gonna slap your (expletive) mouth, I’m gonna slap your real mother

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Why aren’t some bankers in jail? (Update)
ecthompsonmd November 17, 2010

If I sell you a disk that I tell you has Windows 7 on it and you get that disk home and find out that it only has the Windows 7 logo, that’s a problem. Bankers sold the American public mortgages that they knew would blow up in a couple of years. Why isn’t that fraud? Update: The Great Recession showed the world that the crimes that create the most victims are not committed by terrorists, gangbangers or drug traffickers, but by well-heeled crooks in Wall Street’s executive suites. Tens of millions of people have seen their jobs disappear and their

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