Category Archives for In the News

There’s Just Never Anywhere to Park

Between New York and D.C., diplomats owe close to 18 million dollars for parking tickets! To be fair some of these tickets date back as far as 1970, but then again maybe that should be further cause for rage. I realize that there are far greater problems than self-important foreigners not paying their parking tickets, […]

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Quikster, Huh?

I received a mass email from Netflix’s CEO yesterday about how Netflix is taking the split between streaming and DVDs one step further. DVD rentals will now be under the company name quikster. My first thought was that I didn’t care because I dropped the DVDs when the price increased. My second thought was, quikster, […]

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Drawing the Line on Poverty

Well, the new poverty report came out yesterday. Guess what? More people are impoverished. Not much of a surprise there. Currently our poverty rate is at 15.1 percent, a 0.8 percent increase since 2009. Wow, less than a percent increase. Now you might say, that doesn’t sound so bad, but something tells me that the 2 […]

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In Vino Veritas, In Vivos…Not So Much

Vivos, which translates into living, is in the business of “underground shelter networks for long-term survival of future catastrophes.” Wow! And this ain’t your grandpa’s bomb shelter, because even during armageddon you should have options. You can go with the first class shelter with more lavish accommodations for the reasonable starting price of $25,000 per person or, […]

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