You get a tax write-off for putting your money in the corporate Ponzi scheme, and the corporati get to feast on the corpus of what would have been your life savings. Vlad the Impaler would have envied them
The devil is in the details. Karl Rove and Harriet Meiers are going to come to Congress and "testify" about the Attorneygate scandal. But John Conyers has agreed that they will not be asked about "will not be asked about their conversations with Mr.
Sen.
Nature versus nurture is so retro. Try nurture as nature on for size, as another paradigm bites the dust.
Ninth Circuit Appellate Justices were taken aback when Obama's Dep't of Justice showed up wearing the same blank executioner's mask worn by Ashcroft, Gonzales and Mukasey during the Bush years.
If police catch a criminal stealing on video, that's the end of the story. Case closed, perp convicted.
The Cramps had it all, except virtuousity. They were one more band that made you think, "I could do that!" But that wasn't true.
In response to a survey finding that Google is no longer ranked among the top twenty trusted companies, their spokesperson said: "The bedrock of our privacy philosophy is to be transparent about our approach to privacy and to give users meaningful control, and we continue to work …
Susan Cheever tries to draw broad conclusions from what she perceives as a reduction in conspicuous boozing in New York society -- and harvests a wide range of responses from social drinkers, teetotalers, people in recovery, and gadflies who detect an undertone of moralizing.
An earnest man in death as in life, Paul Newman's will leaves most of his assets to the Newman's Own Foundation, and attempts to prevent the application of his name and likeness to products of lesser quality than those currently used.
Some people are the gift that just keeps on giving. Alberto Gonzales, Mr. Pleasuring the President himself, is back reprising his role as a thief of government resources.
One day you're a free man, cashing your paycheck and going to see your girlfriend on the subway. The next day you're judicial roadkill, hauled in front of a Federal judge on death-penalty charges of killing a man you had no idea existed -- a witness in a Federal drug trial.
In September 2004, as John Kerry and George "Mission Accomplished" W.
Former Sex.Com owner Gary Kremen kicked in $50K to help jumpstart a crowdsourcing product that will help lovers of adult imagery blackball the purveyors of violent and otherwise disgusting porn.
An astronomer described the imaging of what appear to be massive planets larger than Jupiter orbiting Fomalhaut, a star that is relatively near the earth, as having "one of your four best friends win the lottery." Using different methods, astronomers in Mauna Kea, Hawaii and the …
When Truman left office, Sen.
"Michael Alix, chief risk officer at Bear Stearns from 2006 until its demise in March, was named senior vice president in the Bank Supervision Group of the New York Fed on Oct.
A Florida judge ruled that state public defenders could say "no" to new felony cases, because their yearly caseload was way above 2,000 clients per year.
The outgoing Bush administration is hauling the last of the available wealth out the back door of the White House.
The US Sentencing Guidelines are going to become required reading for large numbers of well-heeled corporate wrongdoers. I forecast a brisk market in this Government Printing Office title.
Sarah Palin was invited by the Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider to toss out the first puck, and took two of her daughter with her, apparently hoping to deflect hostility that was expected to be directed her way.
The McPain campaign doesn't have the support they presume to have among the people they exploit in their soundbites.
Law enforcement officers in Chicago won't have to play the bad guys in the daily eviction scenarios plaguing the city's renters anymore, says Sheriff Thomas Dart, who is sick of having his deputies bringing tenants the bad news that their deadbeat landlords have allowed the build …
Well ain't that the breaks -- when Wall Street highfliers pilot their investment banks to destruction, they bail out with golden parachutes.
It's never over 'til it's over, said Yogi Berra, and as long as I've got bills to pay, I'm not dropping this Bailout Beef that I've got broiling.
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