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Jerks of the Week: Feb. 1, 2021 Jerks of the Week: Melvin Capital, Citadel and Other Hedge Funds When I published an entry about Dumb Bears in the Stock Market in Jerks of the Week last Monday, I never thought I’d create another article about trading the following week. Little did I know that GameStop…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 25, 2021 Jerks of the Week: Dumb Bears I helped someone I’ve never met before turn into a millionaire. If you would have told me I did this a year ago, I would have assumed I hit 80 percent of my NFL picks in 2020, or something. That’s an impossible…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 18, 2021 Jerks of the Week: The Christmas Quarantine Back in mid-November, I wrote about a conversation I had with a friend of mine, whom I dubbed as the Most Cowardly Man on the Planet. This guy said some outlandish things, including the fact that he has made sure to…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 11, 2021 Jerks of the Week: The Return of No Space Man I was sad to hear that my friend and long-time reader of this Web site, Michael H., passed away last week. Michael told me he was a huge fan of Jerks of the Week, so I hope he…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 4, 2021 Jerks of the Week: Thanksgiving Farting I forgot what it was like to not work Thanksgiving night. Some of you might be too young to remember that there used to be only two Thanksgiving football games. I’m not lying! We got to watch the Lions lose and the…

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 28, 2020 Jerks of the Week: One Big Happy Family I find myself lucky if I can squeeze in a workout on Monday during football season. My Sundays and Tuesdays are packed with watching games and writing about them, respectively, while Monday is all about preparation for the upcoming week….

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 21, 2020 Jerks of the Week: The 20th Anniversary That Never Was Did you know that Facebook messenger changed its sound notification? It used to be a sharp-pitched ping, and now it’s a lower-based bloop. I know this quite well because it’s all I hear all day. Bloop. Bloop. Bloop….

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 14, 2020 Jerks of the Week: The Voting Sticker and the Lockdown Hypocrites My wife and I had quite the voting experience on Election Day. We went to our designated voting area around 11 a.m. to vote for our candidates of choice. We heard rumors of extremely long lines everywhere,…

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 7, 2020 Jerks of the Week: Joey and the Diaper-Trained Duck I often hear the following sentiment from people: I’m staying off Facebook because there are too many political posts. I swear, I’ve heard this from hundreds of people over the years. I never understood it. Why does someone saying…

Jerks of the Week: Nov. 30, 2020 Jerks of the Week: Double Belly Button Man I was recently shocked when I learned that there was either a Web site or a Facebook group that openly criticized people for not wearing masks in public. This site or group posts pictures of maskless people in order to…