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Today’s Clapback Mailbag is dedicated to last week’s mailbag. I know this sounds like some Inception-level shit…
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I’m sorry. First, I would like to apologize to the readers who trusted me to bring them the latest and best…
I’m sorry, y’all, but this week we’re featuring only one piece of email. It’s not that we didn’t receive a lot of…
It’s Friday, you ain’t got no job (the U.S. lost 33,000 jobs this month, according to the new unemployment numbers),…
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