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Boner (Round Two) for September 21st, 2017

Boner Candidate #1: YOU TWO HAVE FINISH THIS THING.

A Wisconsin woman was busted this week for instigating a brawl between two 8-year-old boys — socking one of them in the process, according to a report. The bizarre incident unfolded at 5 p.m. Sunday when the two boys had a skirmish, but then went their respective ways home after the fight, witnesses told police, according to the Journal Times. Following the fight, Marlo Thomas, 49 who lives on the same block as the boys, then allegedly went to one of the boy’s homes and dragged him down the block to continue to fight the other child, The Journal Times reported. Police say Thomas punched the other boy in the ear, knocking him over to let the other youngster get on top of him and hit him.

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Boner Candidate #2: THE SECRETARY HAS A VERY DEMANDING SCHEDULE

Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fly on private jets to attend routine public events instead of taking cheaper commercial airliners because he has an “incredibly demanding schedule,” his spokeswoman said Wednesday. Mr. Price, a physician and former Republican congressman from Georgia, chartered five work-related flights last week alone. In all, the private flights cost the federal government as much as $60,000, according to a report by Politico, citing internal department documents. The secretary has advocated cost-cutting at his agency while acting as a top Trump administration surrogate for urging the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. His predecessors often traveled by commercial flights or on trains, at a fraction of the cost.

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Boner Candidate #3: IT REFLECTS EXACTLY WHO HE IS.

Jeffrey Mezger, the chief executive of KB Home, one of the country’s largest homebuilders, was captured on audio Saturday night yelling at his neighbor, the comedian Kathy Griffin, using a series of sexist and homophobic slurs. The string of crude comments prompted an immediate backlash against Mr. Mezger, whose company is the sixth-largest publicly traded homebuilder in the country, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Criticism quickly followed the publication of Mr. Mezger’s recorded rant on Tuesday. Suze Orman, the former CNBC host, expressed disgust at the idea of buying a property from KB Home. “You really want to buy a home from this man?” she wrote on Twitter. “Beyond Disgusting!”

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