All The News That Was
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...
Category: news and things
Arrest Warrant Issued for Lindsay Lohan
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...
Coming Soon to a Dictatorship Near You
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...
Jon Stewart Burns CNBCs Jim Cramer
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...
Bernie Madoff in Court to Plead Guilty
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...
RIP: Tapout Co-founder Mask Dies in Car Crash
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...
New York Times Sells Its House
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...
Will Obama Ease Sanctions on Cuba
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...
Electric Trucks To Lead Eco Way?
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...
Sheriff Sues Craiglists Over Hookers
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...
Robin Williams Needs Heart Surgery
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...
Tough Times to be an Oil Dictator
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...
North Korea Now Airline Detour Zone
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...
WSJ: Obama is Killing the Dow
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...
