From the monthly archives:

May 2015

Florida, or The Onion?

by kara on May 26, 2015

  Jeff Waters is a Florida man who apparently bought a blank check off a homeless dude, then decided to try to cash it at the local Bank of America. A $368 billion check.

by kara on May 26, 2015

by kara on May 25, 2015

google image search: lots of cats

Homeopathy, who profits from it?

by kara on May 22, 2015

Companies that don’t have to bear the onerous financial burden of proving anything to the FDA. via xkcd  

by kara on May 21, 2015

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Oops. Arizona is all out of money. What to do? Republicans who control the sate have it all figured it out. In their fiscally conservative, bootstrappy wisdom, the Rethugs have decided to close the $1 billion budget gap by cutting welfare. that could go wrong? Low-income families on welfare will now have their benefits cut off […]

Florida, or The Onion?

by kara on May 19, 2015

by kara on May 18, 2015

It’s little wonderthat these people used to drink like fishes and smoke dope. Prozac hadn’t been invented yet, and they had to deal with trivial bullshit like this all the time.

Memory Loss

by kara on May 15, 2015

FAO Schwarz is closing its flagship Manhattan store because the toy giant can not keep up with the rent increases. The 5th avenue store was harrowing and a far cry from the satellite stores that existed in the 1960’s and 70’s. Ours was in a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall that also housed Lord & Taylor and […]

by kara on May 13, 2015

I just watched “The Stepford Wives” again, criminy that’s a great, ahead-of-its-time feminist movie. If they could *build* a woman to cook, clean, provide buttsecks, wash their car, etc.., how many Republican men would be tempted? No alimony when you traded her in on a newer model. Or put’em to work, buy booze etc., with their […]