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The Schloss-Blog is noticing that the NBA All-Star Game is not your father's NBA All-Star Game, not even his father's.

I've got 397 reasons why I haven't watched it since Magic Johnson made his return from HIV in the 1992 game. Like the NBA regular season, it's got no defense, a lot of unnecessary 3-pointers and a bunch of frivolous slam dunks. 

It's time to make the NBA All-Star Game into a 3-on-3 competition for big money, single-elimination. C'mon NBA, take the same chance the NFL did when it turned its high-scoring Pro Bowl into a flag football event.

Otherwise, it just sucks.

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I swear, everyone except Donald Trump is asking me for $19.97 a month for life to help them feed children, perform surgery and care for pets.

If I paid all of them I can think of, it would cost me something like $220 a month.

Trump is asking for a lot more than that. And he needs it. Thank you, Judge Engoron. 

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If 70 is the new 60, I'm 40, right?

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Is Julian Assange a journalist?

Then why is everyone griping about his prospective extradition to the United States being a violation of the First Amendment?

Or is it?

According to First Amendment Watch at NYU, Assange's alleged violation of the Espionage Act with his leaks to Wikileaks don't matter whether he is a journalist.

Or not.

"The Espionage Act doesn’t make any distinction between journalists and non-journalists," according to Justice Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.

So he can be charged? So the profession of journalism is not in jeopardy because of the charges against him?

Or is it?

Yes, it is.

No, wait...

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Joe Biden just canceled another $1.2 billion in student debt and has canceled $138 billion all told.

So why are young people having so much trouble believing in him, especially with their intended vote? Trump would've kept the money to pay off his legal fees.

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Alabama's Supreme Court says embryos are kids and destroying them can incur the wrath of God.

In other news, the Alabama Supreme Court declared Donald Trump to officially be "Orange Jesus."

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, ladies of New Jersey.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show (hello GDX).