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Posted by Scott Michaels in Business, Society on 02 24th, 2009 | No Comments
Citibank Taken to the Cleaners By…Nigerians!
Citibank Taken to the Cleaners By…Nigerians!
There’s an interesting story in the New York Times showing that when it comes to bilking people and institutions out of money, Nigerians have cornered the market on creativity and ingenuity. It’s also proven something about one of our largest financial institutions, Citibank. Like maybe...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Society on 02 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Man Gets Twenty Weeks for Whistling
Man Gets Twenty Weeks for Whistling
Leopold Wrobel Get 20 Weeks of Jail Time Normally, I assign these sorts of oddball news stories to categories which carry names like “Another Sign that the Apocalypse is Upon Us,” or “Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me?” but the events and subsequent actions surrounding this particular...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Society on 02 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Transgendered Wife Over-Exercises Husband, James Mason, to Death
Transgendered Wife Over-Exercises Husband, James Mason, to Death
Living up to the adage “there’s no fool like an old fool,” a 73 year-old Ohio man who’d died of a heart attack while exercising in a swimming pool with his 41 year-old transgendered wife in June, 2008 was recently proven to have bought it as a result of his man-cum-woman bride’s...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Society on 02 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Study: Parents Blamed for Childhood Obesity, Well Holy Hell!
Study: Parents Blamed for Childhood Obesity, Well Holy Hell!
A new study came out yesterday from a group of scientists (or game show writers, judging from the obviousness of the conclusions drawn) telling me what I’d already learned from my days as a fast-food restaurant burger flipper:  Children, by and large, have a peculiar habit of eating the kinds...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Society on 02 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Society Slips Further Into Savagery
Society Slips Further Into Savagery
I read today about the case of a 40 year-old mother from the depressed city of Hamtramck, Michigan (a town completely surrounded by the urban blight and utter Third World corruption of the once-proud city of Detroit), who was caught being a little too strict on a couple of her children (she has 5 of...
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