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I guess when a country ponders approving a 3 trillion dollar budget when it’s already 9 trillion in the red, the idea of anyone ever actually paying off their bills must seem like a sucker bet. At least, that’s what certain “optimists” are *hoping* is the case when our little tax rebates start showing […]

Great news for homeowners! While the current housing market is not so hot, if you’re lucky enough to own a house whose value falls in a narrow range of the “that’s fucking expensive” spectrum, then sell, sell! SELL!
“The homes that are having a hard time selling are the average-priced homes,” said Vanessa Justice, a […]

If AT&T starts doing this, I promise to start calling them twice a day every day.
If you persistently insist the Sprint fix their numerous errors you will be dropped as a customer, according to reader Michael. He’s been having trouble with Sprint but instead of resolving his problem, they’ve decided to drop him […]

With his approval ratings dropping to fascist levels of sub-30% in the US of A, George Bush has apparently decided to move on and tackle the problems of a smaller nation:
Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, U.S. President George W. Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American […]

As you might’ve heard, today is the two year anniversary of Jonah Goldberg offering a wager to Juan Cole that, within two years, Iraq:
won’t have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it.
Staring […]

Space, the final frontier. These will be the voyages of some other country’s ship, possibly that of a country that didn’t blow its wad on a trillion dollar war back when dollars were actually worth something.
NASA may not be able to launch the space shuttle’s replacement by 2014 as promised, according to the agency’s […]

Have you been reading Men’s Health online content for weeks, if not months, treating their words though they were the bible and scrupulously following every inane lifestyle suggestion? I know. Me too. Yet, I still find myself occassionally not sitting alone and in the dark, abandoned by all who loathe my vapid […]

In war, like in home redecorating or computer upgrading, your initial guess about how much money and time you’ll be spending is always a bit low. Part of the reason it’s important to set a strict budget for yourself is so that you have a baseline against which to judge how insane you are […]

a) while she is examining the headlights of the vehicle
b) after she has agreed to buy the car
c) after she has left the showroom floor
d) all of the above
Via Twisty, someone, somewhere has finally clued into the fact that women also drive and purchase cars, and would prefer not to be treated like children while […]

A few weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly did a puff piece on a popular new prime-time game show hosted by Howie Mandel, Deal or No Deal. Apparently, answering questions a la Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was too brainy; now contestants just have to point at numbered suitcases with money in them and pray […]

Next week, the first female space tourist will spend a couple of days at the international space station.
Anousheh Ansari is of course filthy fucking rich, and paid about $20 million for the ride. But you need to be rolling in disposable income to make this kind of history - only three guys got up […]

Yesterday, hilzoy celebrated Labor Day with more damning evidence of the myth of American “opportunity.” Canadians are almost three times as likely to be able to jump income classes as Americans, and the Swedes are almost twice as likely. As hilzoy’s data source confirms, Americans are living a lie:
“The correlation between the income […]