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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: February 2007
Latest research on love: we are beasts.
IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY AND WE ARE IN A RUSH TO GET OUR HEART BROKE. A super-fast summary of the latest research on what we look for in a mate, why we fall for that person, and why, dammit, we always … Continue reading
The reason, after so many crappy years, we still love the Times
In John Ford’s great film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, someone says, “When legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So it goes with the death of Cesar A. Borja, the New York City policer office who, claimed the dailies, … Continue reading
Fifty percent of teens are sex offenders.
We have questions about the brouhaha over sex offenders living in public housing, near public schools, day-care centers, super markets; in fact anywhere within 100 yards of a child. First: if you evict them from public housing (federal law prohibits … Continue reading
A Wikipedia for investors
Now we have Valuewiki, a reader-built knowledge base for Wall Street confidence men to steal the money that we’ve neglected to spend on Jack Daniels and Oxycontin. The site works much like Wikipedia.org — anyone can contribute and edit existing … Continue reading
A new low in WTC memorabilia
We have tolerance for bad taste — witness the cataract of tears we shed during the movie Titanic — but even we have limits. This World Trade Center commemorative coin, made with “pure silver recovered from ground zero,” with a … Continue reading
Best book about 9/11
THOUGH EVERY TV SET IN THE WORLD WAS TUNED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON SEPT 11, those trapped in the North Tower had no idea that the South Tower had collapsed. And we who watched from our rooftops (see … Continue reading
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City
Tagged Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, non-fiction, reviews
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David Wright goes all gay on us.
We always knew David Wright was white bread personified, but we didn’t know he’d stoop (along with fellow baseball chuckleheads Trevor Hoffman, Vernon Wells, Lou Piniella, and Tim McCarver) to dine with the butcher of Baghdad at the White House. … Continue reading
Hurry, Hurry Get Yer Undervalued Stocks
Controlled Greed is a Virginia-based blog that specializes in identifying undervalued stocks, says editor John Bethel. That we spent time reading his blog is good reason for you stay far away from us and John Bethel’s picks. Financially-speaking, we have … Continue reading
Shmuck
HAVING DRIVEN A CAB FOR TEN YEARS — A HOBBY THAT WAS, BY TURNS, HUMILIATING AND FUN — we have only sympathy for our yellow brethren. But sometimes those sympathies are tested. Take cabby Chowdhury Osman who, yesterday, found several … Continue reading
Carl Kruger is Jesus
Like New York State Senator Carl Kruger (D) Brooklyn 27th District, we want to ban iPods. But for opposite reasons. We think people who sing “Golddigger” along with their iPods should die. Kruger, by contrast, wants to save pedestrians so … Continue reading