📌Katie Couric Secretly Takes Pay Cut To Spare Colleagues 📌 Pokemon Loses Popularity 📌 Pope Says This Is Not a Good Time To Bother God 📌 Bella Thorne Bisexual 📌 Homeless Woman Gets 100k She’d Been Fighting For 📌And More!

I knew this would be one of those Internet bandwagon deals that no one talks about in a week. Newsflash: I don’t care how innovative your digital invention is, you gotta beat folk’s social media addiction FIRST or find some kind of way to incorporate social media-because that’s where people sit, obsess (and chase) not funny looking anime animals that can offer them nothing about people of the world, news, family and friends and other stuff we’re incessantly interested in and on information overload about.

That’s that on that, now here’s this:

1. 📌Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10 million users

2. 📌A homeless woman who insisted she was owed $100,000 has been proven right after 16 years Awesome. Good for her! (see our sis on a story like this where a homeless man claimed to have once been in a band with Carlos Santana—and a reporter when after it and found out t’is true. Carlos showed up).

Talk about taking one for the team, go Katie:

3. 📌Katie Couric Quietly Took $1 Million Pay Cut While At CBS To Save Jobs (read more on Katie Couric over at our sister site)

   

I know Whoopi should be good and menopausal by now but good looking out for us. She must remember all too well-the ailments during our mensing time of the month. Go Whoopi:

4. 📌Whoopi Goldberg eyes Canada as she looks to expand menstrual marijuana business (more on this from our sis)

I happen to think God is tired of us too. I’ve been saying it. Smh.

5. 📌Pope Francis Warns Catholics This Not Good Time To Bother God

Here goes, because for some reason, this jont knocked about 30k RTs and shares—don’t ask.

6. 📌Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Custom Console Sweepstakes

Stuff we NEED to be paying attention to and not that I hope doesn’t blindside us:

7. 📌North Korea Just Made Terrifying Move… World On HIGH ALERT

8. 📌Korea launches ballistic missile from submarine – report

Too little, too late sweet revenge for my freshman Art History struggle of wanting to be seasoned cultured. 

9. 📌For the First Time, You’ll Be Able to Read Ancient Egyptian Literature in English

This is 2016. And whether it’s dating or just dabbling with platonic friends of the same, opposite sex or platonic or popped exes…NO ONE that you once knew pre-social media is the same well beyond the ‘I’ve evolved and quite naturally I’ve changed’ kinda way. EVERYBODY’s got some kind of emotional, mental, or unbalanced spiritual sht going on. We are living in an unnatural, technological man made time right now that’s forcing us into a way of life that’s not even written in any history books and can be found no where (but tucked away in a set of Dr. Malachi York and the like’s conspiracy theory books).

That said, there are wayyyyyyy to many ‘A’s’ in the world of people we interact with today:

• Angst
• Ambition
• Attention seeking/starved
  
• Anxiety

and

• Aggression (lying beneath even the calmest of spirits)—all due to a life put in front of us that the world didn’t prepared us for. And from now, ‘til the end of time, we are in a fight of the spiritual and personal battle kind trying to figure out how to live with it, deal with it and for many: make a living of it (or at bare minimum): get some attention for it. All subcategories leading to all are fair game, no matter how illegal, immoral or unrighteous. As long as we can Tweet a righteous good tweet and snap a unsuspecting good selfie we’re gonna do it.

All that said and in the words of the late Whitney: “helllllllll to the nall” you wouldn’t catch me posted up on some dating site meeting strangers of 2016.

No ma’am. You still gotta sort through the nutty of the people you know (and once knew-pre social media). I don’t think so. I do not do that form of stranger-danger. Way too random. Too many degrees from separation. I’ve read countless stories about girls ending up dead from meeting guys on social media and dating sites but this time, it happened to a guy. Sad.

At any rate, there are still some good strangers in the world (I suppose) and then there’s this. So sad:

10. 📌Florida father killed in online-dating setup

Willie Nelson and his two Indian pigtails still kickin-I love it.

11. 📌Watch Willie Nelson Cover ‘Heartaches By the Number’

Beach burka and burkini’s have been the talk of fashion here of late and this disrobing on the beach is just downright terrible and so humiliating. Things like this make me wonder if there was no possibility this would “go viral,” would these women have been left alone, in peace. Things like this worry me because you don’t know if half the time things like this are legit or if you are caught in the middle of someone [who in authority]’s need for attention. These women shouldn’t have had to endure this

12. 📌Get ’em off! Armed police order Muslim woman to remove her burkini on packed Nice beach – as mother, 34, wearing Islamic headscarf is threatened with pepper spray and fined in Cannes 

13. 📌Adoptive Mom Gives Son Back. Then, His Social Worker Tells Him She’s Ended The Search

I’m a writer. And this is something I already know and never have to read or be told. But hey, you might need or want to.

U hvnt made any real magic until uv heard the crickets trade places w/the birds around 4a. Anything after that, the world taints your stuff.

— OSFMag.com #OSFMag (@AngFrankPodcast) August 16, 2016

14. 📌Why 4 a.m. Is the Most Productive Hour

Welp 

15. 📌Bella Thorne Comes Out as Bisexual

RIP Steven Hill

16. 📌’Law & Order’ star Steven Hill dies at 94
17. 📌Steven Hill, Who Played ‘Law & Order’ DA Schiff, Dies at 94
18. 📌Actor Steven Hill, the original D.A. on ‘Law & Order,’ dies at 94

EpiPen’s Epic Egregiousness

19. 📌Mylan CEO saw 600% pay increase during EpiPen price raise
20. 📌EpiPen’s steady price increases masked until deductibles rose
21. 📌Mylan Execs Gave Themselves Raises As They Hiked EpiPen Prices
22. 📌Congress Presses Pharmaceutical Company to Explain Surge in Cost of EpiPen
23. 📌EpiPen ‘Pharma Sis’ makes $18M and will probably never know what suffocating feels like—but I know
24. 📌S. lawmakers demand investigation of $100 price hike of lifesaving EpiPens
25. 📌Congress scolds pharmaceutical company’s price hike on EpiPens

26. 📌Black man shot by cops after calling to report robbery

Trump news wasting our time again. *blows bangs

27. 📌’Flash Mobs’ for Trump to Take Place Throughout Michigan

28. 📌This Woman Served An Epic Clapback To A Guy Criticizing Olympic Gymnasts’ Abs

Believe it or not, this got thousands of shares…

29. 📌A Dog Just Got Elected For A Third Term As Mayor

Soooo for this next article…

Well one, because people speculated the woman was next to being wheeled into her next speech without her even having confirmed as yet, that she was ill or no. Regardless the 12 reasons, nothing was more terrible than all republican disinterested parties playing into the notion that because a woman was getting helped up the steps she had somehow aged 20 years. Dr. Drew lost my respect even when he jumped in talking about being “concerned” for Hillary’s health. That woman had been ill-convicted even before it could be found to be true. This was a horrible week for her 12 times over (for that reason alone) but hey, have at these 12 reasons in this article.

30. 📌12 Reasons Why This Was Hillary Clinton’s Worst Week Ever

31. 📌Photo Of Mom Clutching Her Firstborn Goes Viral 

32. 📌Neymar pulled a Messi and bleached his hair blond

Phelps’ new ‘lap’ of luxury:

33. 📌Michael Phelps to Live in $2.53 Million Arizona Home After Retirement 

Dear Donald Trump, this is Presidential. Stick to New York residential. It’s your schtick.

34. 📌Obama Shows Trump How A Real President Acts During Tour Of Louisiana Flood Damage

35. 📌President Obama to meet with families of Alton Sterling, slain officers

Donald Trump’s week to get dragged: Last week.

This week: Hillary’s I guess. 

Somedays you’re the sh\t, other days: the pigeon.

Politics.

36. 📌Army confirms: Training slide lists Hillary Clinton as insider threat
37. 📌FBI files linking Hillary Clinton to the ‘suicide’ of White House counsel have vanished
38. 📌Hillary blasts for-profit colleges, but Bill took millions from 

39. 📌Man Hands A Sunflower To A Crying Stranger. She Says It’s A Sign From Her Deceased Fiancé

I couldn’t image this.

40. 📌Gang Rape Of Aid Workers In South Sudan Makes Agencies Consider Pulling Out Foreign Staff 

Facebook’s got more going on that its user thinks…

41. 📌Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

42. 📌Best Video Games of All Time: TIME’s Top 50

Major disgusting. Glad they caught it. I couldn’t imagine.

43. 📌Bride Is Acting ‘Crazy’ On Her Wedding Day. Then, The Doctor Sees A Bug In The Back Of Her Head

44. 📌Whimsical macaron bakery Ladurée lands in Los Angeles

“Professional Student”-always been a thing. Why question it now?

45. 📌Are they students? Or are they employees? NLRB rules that graduate students are employees

46. 📌The World First Met Harry, Ron, And Hermione 16 Years Ago Today

47. 📌Tyler Perry Criticized For All White Too Close To Home Cast

48. 📌Coulter: If Clinton wins, ‘no hope for any Republican ever winning another election’ …Good.

RICHARD BRANSON & VIRGIN VEGEANCE : 

Other than spaceship mission planning and other positive things, we never hear of Richard Branson / Virgin in the news. This seems like a bunch of he say-he say but it’s old man funny and they’ve got my guy Sir Richard caught up in a lil’ situation.

49. 📌Virgin challenges Jeremy Corbyn train footage
50. 📌Jeremy Corbyn fends off Branson’s attack over ‘ram-packed’ Virgin train
51. 📌Revealed: Jeremy Corbyn had a seat during train journey he suggested was so ‘ram-packed’ he had to sit on floor
52. 📌Passengers dispute Virgin Trains’ claims about Jeremy Corbyn ‘sitting on floor’ video
53. 📌Corbyn Defiant As Virgin Casts Doubt On Leader’s Packed Train Claim

Good gift. Teens need as much analog normalcy as they can get. The Italian government is giving teens €500 on their 18th birthday to spend on books

55. 📌Britney Spears’ ‘Glory’ Is Another Comeback Album — And This Time, It Might Be For Good

56. 📌A 75-Pound Pearl Has Been Hidden Under A Fisherman’s Bed For 10 Years

57. 📌The best British sitcom of the 21st century

58. 📌Tumblr Is Totally Obsessed With The Story Of This Kid’s Pet Caterpillar

Not all people with special needs look like they have special needs. We must slow our ‘programmed’ roles.

59. 📌Disabled Veteran Leaves Coffeehouse Humiliated After They Question His Need For His Service Dog

60. 📌This 1975 interview is a reminder that Helen Mirren has been fighting sexism
    for decades