Fark is a little like Digg or Reddit with a twist. Readers submit totally unnewsworthy stories, as well as their hilarious headlines. For instance, a story about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck attending the Democratic National ...READ»
It has taken me all week to realize that George Carlin is dead. He was so cavalier about the subject (his final HBO special featured a long rant on his blithely crossing off the names of dead friends in his address book), that ...READ»
It’s all well and good to put family first, but a teen pregnancy pact puts work/life balance out of whack before you even start working. By now, we have all formed our own theories on what could possibly have caused ...READ»
It is only natural for the human mind to connect seemingly disparate events and try to assign them a collective meaning. So it was as I prepared to write a little something about the recent indictments of two former ...READ»
Okay, so you’re dead. No big deal. Here’s a few million to tide you over. New federal rulings require companies to be more upfront about the “golden coffins” they are providing to their already-wealthy CEO’s, ...READ»
It’s not surprising that The Incredible Hulk, who represents unchecked anger, should have such a grip on the collective unconscious. He is, literally, a monster from the Id. And the fact that there is now a second film ...READ»
A couple in Sweden just won the right to name their new baby "Lego" after a long intellectual property dispute. This is bizarre on several levels. Firstly, these people were obsessed enough that they actually put time ...READ»
Okay, I admit the headline on today’s entry could fall under the category of “bait and switch.” See, I don’t really want to write about Hillary Clinton’s recent defeat at the polls, but there’s so much news about it ...READ»
I find that marketers and bloggers are usually funny people and I
was thinking about all of the ways we’re just a tad different than
other folks.
So, without any delay, and in a Jeff Foxworthy-esque voice, I present: “You ...READ»
It only took a week or so for another fantasy film to bump Indiana Jones off the top spot
at the box office. And I’m not branding “Sex and the City” a fantasy just because I’m a
guy who would rather run headlong ...READ»
In his new book “What Happened,” former White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan confesses to feeling “dismayed and disillusioned” by Washington politics, and the angry detractors have already begun to fire back at ...READ»
I would like to thank American Airlines for putting the possibility of a fee for checked baggage out there in the news recently. They have provided work/life-minded individuals like myself with one of the finest metaphors ...READ»
So this time it’s a Crystal Skull. When it started it was Lost Ark. When is Indiana Jones going to own up to his work obsession? Hint: probably about the same time as Spielberg and Lucas own up to theirs, which won’t ...READ»
Ninety-two years ago this week, the Saturday Evening Post ran its very first Norman Rockwell cover. The painting depicted a boy of around ten or twelve, looking rather disgruntled at having to both wear his Sunday best and ...READ»
The meddlesome father who was recently banned from the set of “American Idol”--for trying to orchestrate every level of his son David Archuleta’s performance on the show—did his best to stay involved this past week, ...READ»
I was all set to write something satirical about Jenna Bush’s wedding over the weekend, certain that the President of the United States--a guy with one of the most overcommitted schedules in the free world—would fail to ...READ»
The call went out to Facebook users in Leeds, England, and 350 of them responded. Summoned by an impromptu posting on the social networking Web site, the 350 showed up at an award-winning outdoor garden park with water ...READ»
Okay, Mr. Downey, Jr., it’s clear that after the boffo box office on Iron Man that you have just landed yourself a sweet role in an ongoing franchise. Well, this is America, bud, and you can’t have too much of a good thing, ...READ»
Not surprisingly, the latest edition of Grand Theft Auto, the reprehensible yet popular (what, something in America is popular even thought it’s tasteless?) video game has arrived with its share of controversy. Well, such ...READ»
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I need urgently your help right up at this minute. And there is promising to you many hundreds and thousands of dollars for the return to you if you can only contribution to my cause. ...READ»
Alex Urrutia-Garcia, HR Director for Universal Industrial Sales, a Utah based manufacturing company, faces up to 20 years in prison for "encouraging or inducing workers to remain in the U.S. illegally".
According to one ...READ»
So Delta and Northwest merge, and Arby’s is buying Wendy’s. JPMorgan bails out Bear Stearns and a Brazilian sugar company has purchased ExxonMobil. It’s hard to say what the advantages to the consumer will be. In ...READ»
The latest YouTube sensation is a long-suppressed video from 1999, showing edited highlights of a man going slowly bonkers while being trapped in an elevator for nearly two days. At one point, the poor guy, ...READ»
Even as the latest season of “American Idol” moves into its final weeks, I was on the fence about creating an “Idol”-themed blog for today. It seemed a little low-brow. Then I found an article on the show, by no ...READ»
