All Matters of Dopeness (Musings and Comedy in Erie's World)

Last year was rough.  Most of us agree with the memes going around that say "Forget 2016". In fact, we started giving 2016 the side-eye when David Bowie died, and by the time Phife Dawg died and Prince died, we were pretty much done with 2016.  The next thing you know the whole country took a "L", suffered a loss, with Trump being elected, and with Zsa Zsa, Rickie Harris and George Michael dying towards the end we are all like "Forget 2016".  Truly, 2016 was the year of taking a loss, the year of the L.   With that said, some of these non-grim reaper-type L's people took for loss of love or unrequited love in 2016 were well deserving or simply a part of life, not warranting dramatic displays of grief, and yet folk were straight clowning! So...while we are gathered here today to talk about this thing called life, we also have to talk about how some of y'all need to learn to take those L's correctly in 2017.  Consider this a crash course on the e...