December 23, 2008 - All you sailors, Farmer's Almanac editors and practicing Wiccans out there know that this past Sunday was the winter solstice, marking the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. I spent the brief day and long night snug in my well-appointed quarters, watching a Big Love marathon...
Filed under: economy,
economic downturn,
economic crisis,
Wall Street crisis,
Wall Street collapse,
Stock Market plunging,
President Bush,
Bush mistakes,
Bush Iraq,
Bush Constitution,
mistakes
December 17, 2008 - New York, NY -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is said to be considering a request from the Players Association that would change the league's payment currency from the Dollar to the Peso. If he approves the deal it will mark the first time professional athletes in this country h...
Filed under: economy,
economic downturn,
economic crisis,
Wall Street crisis,
Wall Street collapse,
Stock Market plunging,
Bud Selig,
dollars vs pesos,
baseball,
sports,
free agents
December 11, 2008 - A Hollywood insider scumbag passed along the following top secret document to me: a sample week of television programming that the networks and cable outfits have designed with the looming Screen Actors Guild strike and overall budget considerations in mind. Behold the future of entertainment...
Filed under: SAG,
SAG strike,
Screen Actors Guild,
Screen Actors Guild strike,
economy,
economic downturn,
economic crisis,
Wall Street crisis,
Wall Street collapse,
Stock Market plunging,
recession,
depression,
tv,
entertainment,
network tv,
NBC,
ABC,
CBS,
networks in trouble,
networks collapsing,
Jay Leno,
Frank TV
December 11, 2008 - Omg. Brian's company totally laid off 7% of it's workforce today, him included. His company has no more production team, and middle management will probably be replaced entirely by Columbia interns. This is it! Brian totally can't dump me now!
In fact, I bet he's gonna...
Filed under: economy,
economic downturn,
economic crisis,
Wall Street crisis,
Wall Street collapse,
Stock Market plunging,
recession,
depression,
marriage,
depression marriage,
money marriage,
recession love,
love
December 2, 2008 - The CEOs of the big three auto makers are back in Washington today. They were sent home two weeks ago by Sister Nancy after showing up for their bailout without their book reports. Later it was disclosed that, GASP! HORROR! SHOCKING! They flew to D.C. on corporate jets. Those...
Filed under: big three automakers,
automaker bailout,
automaker crisis,
big 3 automakers,
big three automakers Washington,
automakers in Washington,
big three automakers Congress,
Wall Street,
Wall Street collapse,
bailout,
Wall Street bailout
November 24, 2008 - Like an asthmatic, flat-footed brainiac on the dreaded gym class mile run (not to divulge too much about my adolescent self), we as a nation are now grimly limping toward the end of the year, teeth gritted, bracing ourselves for the next spasm and wondering if there's anything...