June 10th, 2008
Thousands of South Koreans protesting over US beef imports and government officials willing to resign over it…WTF?!?
There’s a few reasons why Koreans have beef with American beef. One is that Koreans view American beef to have a higher risk of mad cow disease. Even though there hasn’t been that many cases of the disease […]
By Alex -- 1 comment
May 27th, 2008
Historic �Blockbuster� Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
Remember back in the day when you used to have to go to Blockbuster or your local porn in the back/regular video store up front place to rent movies? It was a real drag because it meant actual physical exertion-walking to your car, […]
By Alex -- 0 comments
May 1st, 2008
Yesterday was Queen’s Day in the Netherlands and Amsterdam was totally nuts. My wife and I started the day close to our apartment, in an area called Oost Watergraassmeer, just a little south-east of central Amsterdam. What we saw there was a more traditional part of the Queen’s Day festivities-the area became a giant yard […]
By Alex -- 0 comments
April 21st, 2008
For years Craig’s List has been the place to find everything from jobs, event tickets, antiques to gay midgets wearing pink feathers ready to show up on your door step to give you a good spanking. Craig’s List ranks 7th in traffic amongst English language websites, receiving about 9 billion page views a month.
These days […]
By Alex -- 0 comments
April 15th, 2008
An integration of snacks? Probably, but the announced merger of Delta and Northwest will certainly mean much more for consumers who fly either airline.
For starters, consumers will have less choice as to what carrier they choose to fly on many routes.
The proposed merger will also create the United States largest airline. In a mass email […]
By Alex -- 2 comments
April 14th, 2008
There’s nothing delicious about taxes but there is something that this photo has in common with very high tax rates. With tomorrow being April 15th, the deadline for filing taxes in the United States, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the highest tax rates in the world.
To keep this simple […]
By Alex -- 10 comments
April 13th, 2008
The world used to be fine and dandy for Elmo; totally carefree as he simply played with his friends, sang songs, got tickled and occasionally crapped himself. Then he met Laura Bush and Elmo’s world turned upside down.
Not really, but Wal-Mart decided to sponsor this episode of Sesame Street where Elmo’s dad goes off to […]
By Alex -- 3 comments
April 9th, 2008
A couple weeks ago I talked about America’s 1.1 trillion dollar equity loan debt and promised to offer ways for people to dig their way out of the ditch (perhaps literally). My first tip involved opening a Nigerian bank account since money flows from Nigeria like Eliot Spitzer’s cash at a Heidi Fleiss pot luck […]
By Alex -- 0 comments
April 3rd, 2008
Last week I talked about the 1.1 trillion dollars that Americans owe banks in equity loans and promised to give tips on how you can get out of debt and still purchase that gorgeous catamaran you so desire. So here it is:
Open a Nigerian Bank Account: We’ve all gotten the emails, Nigerians have more […]
By Alex -- 2 comments
March 26th, 2008
We’ve all gotten them: Emails from various companies with the return address DoNotReply.com. Obviously that’s pretty obvious to those paying attention, but do you know what happens if you do reply?
It’s not what you might otherwise think from the picture, they don’t get transfered to 12 year old kids in India (although they should!). Especially […]
By Alex -- 1 comment
Recent Comments