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Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt Volcano Erupts, Reminds World of the Many Ways We’re All Totally Screwed

Been focused on the global economic meltdown over the past many months? Been busy watching the value sucked out of your 401k and your prospects for retirement morph from visions of crystal blue waters and tee times into the dull navy shade of a Wal-Mart uniform and clean-ups in aisle six? We can’t blame you, [...]

Obama on 60 Minutes – Unemployment Rate Rises; White House Can’t Hire

On tonight’s 60 Minutes, President Obama revealed that he has offered jobs in the Treasury Department to people who have turned him down. It would seem that someone might be interested in a job these days, but apparently there isn’t anyone in Washington who can make it through a Senate confirmation hearing without the words [...]

AIG Bonus Gate – Ten Better Ways AIG Could Have Spent Our Bailout Money

It seems the phrase “they just don’t get it” was made for these times we’re living in. For years, we thought it was mostly socially awkward teens and co-workers that “didn’t get it,” but only now are we beginning to understand the phrase’s true meaning. Now that we’re getting to know these first-rate inept crap [...]

Madoff’s Done, But Ponzi Schemes Live On: A List of Other Soon-to-Collapse Ponzis

So fraudster Bernard Madoff is officially guilty of bilking plenty of Americans out of billions, taking cash and promising to invest it and guaranteeing too-good-to-be-true returns. Of course, those returns came from other investors in a grand reverse pyramid Ponzi scheme that never actually invested in anything other than keeping Madoff neck deep in hookers, [...]

Monday Afterschool Special – No Party for Robby Mugabe on his 85th :(

Hey, boys and girls – have you ever gone to a birthday party that just totally sucked nuts? No, not in the way that you’ll come to enjoy in your sophomore year of college – I’m talking about a totally lame-o party where nobody cool shows up and the cake is made of lime jello, [...]

Hello Unemployed (or about to be) Hordes! Here’s Something to Help You Vent

Courtesy of addictinggames.com, it’s “Trillion Dollar Bailout” – the easiest way to slap a CEO. But don’t worry, we’re still on for that cross-country looting and burning tour of Circuit City stores… Play Games at AddictingGames

GOP Senator: This Shitty Stimulus Bill is Fucking Awesome!

Kit Bond, the Republican U.S. Senator from Missouri once thought to be a specialty brand of adhesive for model airplane enthusiasts, is apparently still sniffing the good shit.When it comes to the stimulus plan, this good ol’ boy is having his cake, eating it, and sending a flaming pile of resultant crap out through his [...]

Hey Dow Jones! Get Up, You Pussy!

Stock markets across the globe are totally bitching out this morning, leading to gasps and moans of disgust from onlookers. After falling to a new six-year low yesterday, stocks continued tumbling by over 100 points on the open this morning. Rumor is that if the Dow doesn’t get up off its lazy ass, Cramer’s going [...]

A Bailout Etiquette Guide for Banks Looking to Survive 2009

Nope, no idea what this means, but we like it. Flickr: veganstraightedge The O-Town express has laid out its plan for stemming the Michael Bey-scale craptide of foreclosures, and TrezSec Timothy Geithner has at least mentioned that he’s got a few ideas for helping out the banks last week over a Frozen Tangerine Dream® during [...]

Stimulus Signed, World Saved! Uh, Any Day Now….

To commemorate the historic signing of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, the Dow hit a ten-year low as millions of Americans cried tears of  an unknown emotive origin, but it sure tastes a little bit like apocalyptic malaise… While the world continued to derail unabated, we do at least have another new website to [...]