For some the 1980s are best typified by the classic John Hughes films, for others it would be the “Rock of the 80s” format, and still others it’s Reaganonmics. For me, however the 80s were all about big hair…
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)37-year old Arelia Margarita Taveras is an attorney with a serious ethics problem. She also has a gambling problem and lost her law practice, her apartment and her parents’ home, and she owes the IRS $58,000. Worse, she dipped into clients’ escrow accounts when she needed money and still faces criminal charges over that. Fortunately […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This after hitting record levels for 5 straight years. The deficit with China was up 10.2% however.
December 2007 - petroleum imports were more than half the total U.S. trade deficit, but non-petroleum products fell to $34.8 billion, its lowest level since November of 2003.
The U.S. had record exports to China of […]
Like any sane person we here at Independent Sources enjoy picking apart the columns of Paul Krugman, but pleasurable activities can be pursued to the point of obsession. I have to wonder if that isn’t the case with this article by Daniel B. Klein with Harika Anna Barlett in the current Econ Journal […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A study conducted at the Spanish University of Granada (but almost certainly equally applicable to the U.S. with our culture of victimhood) has found that:
…nearly half of the people who go to court feign psycho-cognitive disorders with the objective of profiting from this in some way. They are not hypochondriacs or overanxious or obsessive patients, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Growing numbers of economists are sounding warnings that rising cost pressures and wages in China mean that it may be starting to export inflation. Analysts fear that the era when Britain and other big Western economies could depend on steadily falling prices for Chinese imports to keep a lid on inflation and allowing their economies […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I was doing my post-Christmas blog reading over at Testosterona and came across this. I initially forwarded it to a few friends but the more I looked at it the more I wondered what the f is going on? Why is Gerry Garcia stripped down to his undies and why is the woman-of-size allowing him […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I am going to take a break from our regularly scheduled rotation of old guys who look like lesbians, trophy wives, and furry sex videos disguising themselves as soft drink commercials to talk about something a little lighter - The very future of the world.
Alright I am exaggerating, but in my opinion […]
I don’t know why I found this Reuters headline so darn funny:
India to host world toilet summit
It’s actually a health summit so they could have worded it better but we like the way it is.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Winners
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Rathergate.com: For a website with the URL Rathergate.com, this is like winning the Powerball lottery.
Mark Cuban: His hiring of Rather for his fledging HD network has been a high-definition bust. Cuban hoped that Rather would have PR value, something that has not been the case at least until now.
Conservative bloggers: Even though […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Reuters calls it heartwarming, and I guess when you get over the shock of seeing him it is.
This young man was hosting the world’s largest tumor (23 kilos) in his head. This picture is after the surgery.
If you think it’s Photoshop then click on this link to watch the video of him eating.
The real […]
Women fearing that they have a cancerous mole will have to wait approximately three times as long than if they were interested in removing wrinkles from their foreheads. This according to a story in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and reported in the New York Times.
“The difference in wait times between […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Apparently you just have to be a “self confessed pedophile” like Jack McClellan.
McClellan who has never been arrested (other than for trespassing on August 14th, 2007) is an LA resident who describes himself as a pedophile and maintains websites called Seattle Tacoma Girl Love and Los Angeles Girl Love. These sites feature pictures of […]
This article at efinancedirectory.com draws some interesting parallels between the US housing market today and the Japanese housing market during their housing crash of the 1990’s.
Price increases are nothing new, since home values tend to go up over time. What makes this housing bubble different (besides the fact that it is the largest bubble […]
Source: Email submission from Dirk
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