Wednesday, October 4, 2006 – 9:53 pm
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“The Hub” was a pitiful excuse for a social-networking site that Wal-Mart launched back in July to coincide with it’s back-to-school campaign.
Wal-Mart claimed the site’s goal was to allow teens to “express their individuality”. And by “express […]
Monday, September 25, 2006 – 8:44 am
It seems like a distant memory when adults were ready to throw down for the chance to get their hands on a Cabbage Patch Kid or a Tickle Me Elmo. Thanks to Fisher Price, strategic product shortages and the new Tickle Me Elmo, those days are back in full swing.
A man claiming […]
Friday, September 15, 2006 – 11:32 am
The editor and publishers of the LA Times are in a bit of a standoff with the paper’s owners over job cuts in the newsroom.
“I am not averse to making cuts,” Mr. Baquet told the paper. “But you can go too far, and I don’t plan to do that.”
The paper reported that Scott […]
Monday, September 11, 2006 – 3:02 pm
Cheney: “If We Had It To Do Over Again, We’d Do Exactly The Same Thing”…
Of course they would. They’d make just as much money the second time around, Halliburton would still get the contracts. The inability to admit mistakes is not a good quality and not one we should seek in our […]
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 – 7:59 am
Sometime last week MetLife announced that it was putting its 110 apartment building Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village up for sale. Stuyvesant town is 80-acres of prime Manhattan real estate which MetLife is reportedly hoping to get upwards of $5 billion for.
Since Stuvesant town is one of the only, and certainly […]
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 – 9:22 am
In case you didn’t know that Jessica Simpson was better than you last week at the VMA’s when she walked away with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free jewelry and high tech electronic gadgets and a $50,000 Chrysler convertible, her publicist is trying to hammer home the point.
“People like her don’t […]
Monday, August 28, 2006 – 9:23 am
Hardly a day goes by when you don’t read about some corporate fat cat celebrating all-time high profits for his company. News that might actually be good news if they weren’t too busy whoring up all the profits for themselves.
As a result, wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the […]