Tough times in the economy have just made things worst for the newspaper world. Prior to the arrival of the current economic downturn, the newspapers were already suffering greatly. Increased costs from paper to delivery to fuel, combined with slipping readership and declining ad sales already had many just about on the ropes. With a [...]
The weird and wonderful life of Hollywood movie star and troubled soul Lindsay Lohan has taken a few more amusing twists. First her on again, off again lesbian romance with DJ Samantha Ronson has been the subject of much speculation, with apparently some pretty spectacular yelling matches and other odd things. It’s also a weird [...]
You know all those history books that declared the cold war dead when the Berlin wall came down? Well, they may have been a little premature in their words. Russia, lead by the “not the leader, not a dictator” Vladamir Putin has been making a very strong military buildup in the last few years. Huge [...]
Jon Stewart is at it again. The host of the insanely funny comedy news show The Daily Show has once again managed to make more news that the news itself. This time, he has taken aim at CNBC’s aggressively opinionated analyst / commentator / hedge fund manager Jim Cramer. Stewart ran a series of clips [...]
I haven’t really written about this story before, but it’s a doozy, that is for sure. Bernie Madoff ran a huge investment program that took in upwards to 50 million in investor money, but was paying returns only by using new investor money to pay off old investors, what is called a Ponzi scheme. A [...]
A bit of a shocker is the news that TapouT co-founder Mask (Charles Lewis Jr) died in a high speed car accident last night. His $300,000 Ferrari Modena was sectioned in half by a telephone pole which he hit at very high speed, apparently while street racing with a Porche. TapouT is the clothing and [...]
This story is another indication of just how quickly things have changed in the newspaper business in the last few years. it was just a couple of years ago that the New York Times moved into it’s new stunning New York Time Building tower, a 52 story masterpice that greatly improved what had been a [...]
With all sorts of difficulties in the world, a failing economy, and an unpopular war on the other side of the world, President Obama may be looking for an easy and clean victory to add a little luster to a Presidency that has so far been mired in difficulty. The Guardian newspaper is reporting that [...]
I can certainly mark this story down in the category of “I didn’t see that coming”. I can also say that I am pleasantly surprised and happy to see this sort of thinking coming to the streets. EVI USA is a company that has been working on the whole concept of building delivery trucks that [...]
Okay, this story is just a little weird, but it almost tracks. It also digs down deep into the questions of liability and responsibility for online ad services such as Craigslist. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has sued Craigslist in federal court, trying to get the Erotic Services section shut down, as well as to [...]
Well, it isn’t good news for funny man Robin Williams. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, he had to cancel some shows after being out of breath and not felling well. Rumors at the time said he had some heart problems, but there wasn’t any real confirmation. It has been confirmed now that [...]
What do you do when you are a dictator (elected one, but a dictator none the less) trying to convert your country into a socialist paradise, while facing massive declines in your countries only real export, oil? For most of us, it would be a puzzle too difficult to answer, but not for Hugo Chavez. [...]
Whenever someone asks me how terrorists can manage to stay alive and keep planning attacks, I just point them at North Korea. It isn’t that I think that the dear leader Kim Jong-Il is a terrorists, at least not in the normal term. Rather, that is the world cannot find a way to get dispose [...]
The US and world economy is shrinking and collapsing faster than anyone could have expected. The new US President Obama came to office with a mandate to change things, to make it work, and to get us all out of the problems we face. However, according to this Michael Boskin opinion piece in the Wall [...]
You can file this one in the “stupid idiot protester” bin. British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson was hit with a huge cup full of green custard by a protester from the group Plane Stupid. The group is protesting climate change caused by airplanes, particularly at London’s Heathrow airport. To their credit, I would have never [...]
