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United Airlines is crap

Tyler Fransen April 16, 2017

If by now you haven’t seen the horrifying video trending all over social media of the doctor/United Airlines passenger being forcibly dragged off a plane, here’s a recap. According to an April...

Peepl wth bad speling make me madd

Tyler Fransen April 9, 2017

If you saw that headline and thought, “is he stupid, or just being ironic?” the answer is both, but mostly, I’m just being ironic. Neil Gaiman, a renowned short fiction writer, once said, “Picking...

Writer’s block is the worst kind of block

Tyler Fransen March 5, 2017

I never thought we would reach the point where this happened, yet here we are. I am sitting in my office typing, slaving away at the keyboard as I have been all day and week, and nothing is coming to me....

Hey Mesa County, We need to have “The Talk”

Tyler Fransen March 1, 2017

The original title of this article was going to be, “Why don’t we have a Planned Parenthood here?” But Planned Parenthood is something of a political landmine. So, instead, let’s just have a conversation. Is...

Tyler’s Tyrades: My most disgusting tirade

Crite Staff February 15, 2017

by Tyler Fransen Men, we need to talk. It’s about cleanliness. Now look, I’m not your mother, but, as someone who has a mother, I feel it is important - nay, imperative - that I discuss a problem...

Tyler’s Tyrades: Pepe and minions dabbed on that juju yelling, “damn Daniel”

Crite Staff February 8, 2017

by Tyler Fransen Memes: a way of saying, “I’m a slave to internet trends that distort pop culture, and I also spend way too much time on Facebook.” If you need your daily fix of the dankest of memes,...

Tyler’s Tyrades: My taste in music is none of your dang business!

Crite Staff January 29, 2017

by Tyler Fransen Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Earth Wind and Fire, The Rolling Stones; if these sound familiar to you, then congratulations, you are as old at heart as I am. I have, what my friends...

Tyler’s Tyrades: Vacations all I ever wanted

Crite Staff January 27, 2017

by Tyler Fransen We’re barely back to school for a week and already I want a vacation. Sure, I could wait until spring break, but that’s so far away! Come to think of it, as of writing this, I can’t...

Tyler’s Tyrade: A dumpster fire

Crite Staff December 5, 2016

by Tyler Fransen I know it seems a little early for the “year in review, ” but since this is the last Crite issue of the semester, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at all the great memories...

Tyler’s Tyrades: Fight like Hell

Crite Staff November 13, 2016

by Tyler Fransen Originally I had planned to submit a piece about National Geographic’s video of a penguin love triangle and how – up until Tuesday – it took Twitter by storm. However, I think I’ll...

Star Wars & Politics: Make the Empire great again

Crite Staff October 31, 2016

by Tyler Fransen For those of you who have been blissfully living under a rock throughout the 2016 presidential race, the two major party candidates and the two leading third party candidates are...

Tyler’s Tyrades: Noisy Neighbors

Crite Staff October 23, 2016

by Tyler Fransen Do you want to show blatant disregard for people living next to you? Do you wish you could drown out the world with your killer speaker system? Has your Spotify account been hacked, leaving...

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