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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: October 2006
A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be
Vito Fossella, Staten Island’s pretty-boy right-wing congressman (Fossella’s full voting record), arch-enemy of public school education, and the third most conservative congressman in New York State (according to the American Conservative Union), has a campaign finance track record that would … Continue reading
Tanned Torsos and Spam (sigh).
Recharger has always asked himself the following: how can anyone with a pile of cash take a whole aircraft carrier–a floating city packed with an intriguing number of gay sailors and a terrifying array of futuristic weaponry designed to wipe … Continue reading
Save Karl Marx
Karl Marx, the guineafowl recently found in a dazed wander on a Williamsburg sidewalk, desperately needs a home that doesn’t want to eat him. Guineahens are of the same order as pheasants and turkeys. In the wild, these African natives … Continue reading
Anyone Who Starts A Wave Gets Beheaded.
AS THE YANKEES HUFF AND PUFF THIS WEEK NOT TO BECOME A BRONX-VERSION OF THE PERENNIAL-CHOKE ARTISTS ATLANTA BRAVES, George Steinbrenner is going after loyal fans who resell even two tickets. The no-fan-is-to-insignificant-to-screw Bombers just handed a life ban to … Continue reading
Sundays in the Car With George
Used to be some Sunday parking in the city. Now Sunday spots are scarcer than a cheap 1-bedroom. In November, 2005, the City Council, the wisest of our elected bodies, passed Local Law 669, stating that no longer would meters … Continue reading
Danny Napoleon’s Ten Best Mets Moments
METS MOMENT #1: Danny Napoleon’s Triple. April 23, 1964, Giants winning 7-5 going into the ninth. Till then, every game against the Giants ends with a fly ball into Jesus Alou’s glove. Bases loaded. I smash a line-drive at Alou. … Continue reading
Capitalist Miracle! Poor People Can Buy $27,000 Handbags!
For a mere $27,700, the 20% of New Yorkers who, says the Current Population Survey (CPS) live below the poverty line, can buy a black crocodile Fendi “B bag”—the world’s most expensive handbag. Sure, the official poverty rate for a … Continue reading