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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: November 2006
There is a god
For years, we had a recurring dream that we woke up in a supermarket that sold only rice and curry. We’d cook a pot and add the marsala, but just as we put fork to mouth we woke up. Until … Continue reading
Flash!
Atlantic Yards project plans two huge, mall-style “temporary” parking lots. Read about it in streetsblog. Murders spike in NYC by 40%. Read about it on New York 1. Rate Those Bastards! Want to find a broker who’ll make you rich? … Continue reading
Beavis and Butt-head Do Wall Street
RECHARGER WANTS TO KNOW — ARE WE ALL SUCKERS? Can we not tell the difference between an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize in economics? Reading an account of the book When Genius Failed on Underthecounter.com, gets us thinking: could … Continue reading
A Dog Needs Karaoke Like A Woman Needs a Man
On a recent night, Recharger made his way to Winnie’s, Chinatown’s leading Karaoke club, downed two Jack Daniels for courage, and, when his song — the Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” — flashed on the screen, took the … Continue reading
Donuts vs. Terrorists
When Recharger was a doggy cop, he never pulled his gun, except when they charged him for the donuts. This is why he deeply doubts the police on the Manhattan Bridge will stop a terrorist attach. A terrorist in a … Continue reading
Great News: Jeter Loses MVP!
After tolerating the carnage in Iraq, the agony in Darfur, the assasination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, Recharger is thrilled to report a glimmer of justice: Yankee captain Derek “you made me drop the ball, A-Rod” Jeter has again … Continue reading
Why Are We in Iraq?
INSTEAD OF ACCIDENTALLY BOMBING WEDDINGS IN AFGHANISTAN, why can’t the U.S. military accidentally drop a big one on the way-too-long-running Jekyll & Hyde Club? While worthier eateries have fallen victim to high rents and stiff competition, this bastion of tourism … Continue reading
Food from Dumpsters Healthier, Tastier than McDonalds.
Ever since reading Travels with Lisbeth, the memoir by Lars Eighner, an obese college professor who spent three homeless years eating from Dumpsters, Recharger has understood that the poor are fatter. They also have more diabetes, according to a new … Continue reading
Flash!
Not a suicide–murder: Actress and Queens native Adrienne Shelly did not, as originally thought, commit suicide. A 5-foot Ecuadorian worker has reportedly confessed to the murder. According to the worker, Diego Pillco, Shelly became enraged over the noise he was … Continue reading
And donate my Christmas presents to Mike Bloomberg
Recharger has nothing but admiration for ex-banker Christine Jennings who is running for Congress from Florida’s 13th District. Though Jennings didn’t graduate from college, she rose from bank teller to bank president. Better yet, she’s a democrat running for arch … Continue reading