With all the recent hysteria over swine flu, from the fashionable face masks to potentially panic inducing warnings from Vice President Joe Biden, it seems it’s time to poke fun at a faction of society that’s been relatively safe, until now: vegetarians. This video was written, directed, edited, ok, so produced by Rakesh Baruah of …
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Jeff Bercovici, Portfolio.com‘s Mixed Media blogger, broke the news at 10 a.m.: Condé Nast is shutting down Portfolio magazine and its website. Eighty-five people, including editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman and publisher William Li, have been let go. This is a sad, sad day. I write this news with a heavy heart: I was at Condé Nast …
Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal? After attending last night’s panel on Financial Journalism Under Fire: Did We Do Our Job?, hosted by the New York Financial Writers Association, the answer is clear: no. (Changes may and should happen, and …
It’s like the universe wanted to dish out a reward when Madoff was finally sent to prison. That reward went to Ralph Amendolaro of Queens, New York. On March 15th, Amendolaro won $1,500 playing the last three numbers of the gargantuan crook’s prison number — 61727-054A. As strings of numbers go, that one’s creepy. It’s …
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It is harder for a rich man to enter heaven, the Bible tells us, than a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Makes sense. You see it all over Dick Cheney’s snarling face. When he goes, you’ll have to pry his Halliburton shares from his cold, dead hands. Every time I think …
I wonder how pill-popping Rush Limbaugh would explain this: a new study out of Harvard Business School finds that red-staters buy more online porn than their blue state compatriots. Jason Cochran breaks down the findings for WalletPop.com: A Harvard Business School assistant professor who had access to customer receipts from dozens of adult websites found …
Remember when African Americans couldn’t drink from the same drinking fountains as whites? Remember when gay people couldn’t get married? Both scenarios sound so ridiculous. Especially when you think about how much money is to be gained if same-sex couples are legally allowed to get married. Just look at the figures broken down by Conde …
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Now’s your chance, marijuana. The economy is bleeding jobs and businesses. The world’s greatest Olympian who’s ever lived smokes you. Our government could use the tax revenue after becoming a Wall Street ATM. You’ve turned furry Seth Rogen into a supa-star. So if you’ve ever had a time to shine, pot, it’s now. There is …
I don’t trust this Geithner character. He’s got that Fredo Corleone vibe, and do you want Fredo running the Treasury? He’d hand it over to Moe Green, a.k.a. Wall Street, and get slapped around in return. Obama should give his nomination the kiss of death now. Don’t wait to tell him you’re taking him on …
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Chip Saltsman, you’ll have plenty of time on your hands next year since you won’t be RNC chair. (I think the Republicans are too battered and bruised to risk going back to their old ways with someone like you). So with that said, take your show and your trash CDs on the road with an …