When 77 year old Sarasota hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel left a disingenuous suicide note and went on the lam for two weeks before his arrest in 2010, he drove off grid in a pale green 2006 Subaru with fine leather interior. That Subaru was put on eBay with a “getaway car” label, hoping to […]
From the monthly archives:
February 2011
“Breathing a vein”, Bloodletting, Phlebotomy: drawing copious amounts of blood  – that pesky “extra” blood buildup – by having an artery punctured with a lancet, the blood gushing like a geyser into a bowl. From Rick Ungars Policy Page posted on Forbes, 1/17/11.  Etchings by James Gillray, 1804 The ink was barely dry on the […]
If you’re looking at percentages, the percentage of white folks in the great state of Kentucky (89.6%), stands about equal to that which they receive in federal support over what they earn. It’s not clear whether the good, white people of Kentucky actually understand to what degree their lives are dependent on federal dollars – […]
Daily Kos reported that on December 21, 1989, Vice President Dan “You say potato, I say potato” Quayle sent out 30,000 Christmas cards that said: “May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.” My spellchecker didn’t even flag the word when I typed it—I just got a pop-up box that […]
In Robin Hood Yogi (1959), background designer Art Lozzi makes Jellystone look like a tropical paradise.
The year was 2000, the final, halcyon days of the Internet boom, and the St. Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl, a moment that will be forever remembered as the tech bubble’s Waterloo. Take ego-rich 20-year-old CEOs, gravity-defiant stock prices, confused consumers, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans, give all the Doogie […]
Even though I believe that religious zealots of all stripes are going to get us all killed eventually if we don’t stop them first, I’d be more than happy to let these people believe their Creationist fairytales if they weren’t out there trying to break into the political sphere for the purpose of mandating that […]