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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Do we have to tip?
Today’s Times claims that Alix Weisz, who plays her harp in emergency and post-surgery room settings, calms patients’ heartbeats. Some patients, says the Times, wake up thinking they’re in heaven. Don’t know about you, but Recharger things this is a … Continue reading
Hip-hop Laff-of-the-day
The woman who had three kids with assault and rap artist Busta Rhymes’ murdered bodyguard, Israel Ramirez, supports the rapper’s reluctance to talk to cops. “There’s half of me that wants him to speak, and half of me that understands,” … Continue reading
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Jeter = Asshole
Check out Daily News columnist Mike Lupica’s piece on the big chill between Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. Lupica recounts an incident when Jeter and Rodriquez were going for the same pop-up, “Jeter finally bumping into A-Rod and the ball … Continue reading
More proof we can’t survive without immigrants
Came across this interesting hut at the end of the Shore Parkway bike path. Some states from the Census Bureau: 35.2 million immigrants in this country–legal and illegal. About half of the immigrants who’ve settled here in the past five … Continue reading
Another Reason Why I Must Live in Clinton Hill
Broken Angel on the corner of Quincy and Downing in Clinton Hill, a few blocks from Pratt is not–as Gothamist laughingly referred to it, a “Brooklyn tenement version of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (I seriously doubt the writer remembers … Continue reading