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Florida’s Pornhub Ban

JC Ruiz — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:30:24 +0000

The religious right and MAGA brand of Republicans that control the government in Florida love to ban things. Books, trans people, African American studies etc., you name it, they ban it. So it’s not surprising that they would come for porn next. Florida’s Pornhub ban, or basically ban on online porn in general, which took […]

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Please Stop Taking Videos of Yourself Everywhere

JC Ruiz — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:04:25 +0000

Maybe I’m getting older and crankier, which could possibly be true, but for the love of God, can people stop taking videos of themselves everywhere they go? Do they need to set up tripods in Target so they can film their whole shopping experience? Do you need to film your entire gym session and 95% […]

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Traditional Journalism Failed Us and the USA

JC Ruiz — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 02:14:28 +0000

The 2024 Presidential election showed us that traditional journalism is dead. Maybe not the journalists who seek the truth, but the newspapers and cable news shows who turn a blind eye to it in favor of clicks and ratings. And by not doing their moral obligation to seek out the truth they allowed the lies […]

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Are We Witnessing the Death of Journalism?

JC Ruiz — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:17:27 +0000

There was once a time from diners to kitchen tables the news was read line by line. Newspapers were perched under the arms of businessmen in bustling cities, sometimes more than one paper. Now as newsrooms and magazines shutter almost daily, it begs the question. Are witnessing the death of journalism? From newsstands on the […]

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Everyone on the Internet is a Social Media Expert

JC Ruiz — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:04:47 +0000

It seems with every hot, new story of the week on the internet, the social media experts come crawling out to give you their opinionated, often false, takes. From Twitter fingers typing away to TikTokers dance challenging their way into conversations, you can be sure to believe that every social media expert has a hot […]

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Healthcare Should be a Right not a Windfall For Insurance Companies

JC Ruiz — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:11:00 +0000

Call me crazy but I think healthcare should be a right. I’m so tired of it being nothing more than a Ponzi scheme or financial windfall for the insurance companies. How can America be so great if it won’t even take care of it’s people and their health? How is it that 32 out of […]

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I Think We’ve All Had Enough of Jada Pinkett Smith

JC Ruiz — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:13:21 +0000

Every time I see Jada Pinkett Smith in the headlines all I can think of is, “What outlandish comment or revelation does she have today?” Whether is be her professing Tupac was her soulmate or humiliating her husband, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith doesn’t miss a chance to make it all about her and trash […]

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Landlords That Don’t Want to Work

JC Ruiz — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:58:33 +0000

The past couple of years have been nothing short of bedlam. Coronavirus, recessions, inflation, supplies issues, police shootings, wannabe dictator Presidents and the list goes on and on. This is one epidemic that has been plaguing us for the past couple of years and I’m not sure it’s been given it’s rightful attention. And that […]

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Tipping is out of Control

JC Ruiz — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:16:20 +0000

There use to be a time when you would customarily tip your server, bartender, valet etc.; but it seems that those times are long gone. Now you see tip jars at retail store registers, gyms and everywhere in between. It’s crazy. You can’t go anywhere without a tip jar being so blatantly in your face. […]

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Back the Blue

JC Ruiz — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:16:54 +0000

It’s ironic that the MAGA crowd that were the main ones chanting back the blue and arguing against defunding the police are now the ones screaming for it after their beloved leader, Donald Trump, had an FBI search warrant executed at his Mar-a-Largo residence. What made them change their minds so quickly? Did they think […]

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