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Archive for April, 2008

Thursday Blogging - 4/3/08

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

9:50am
In case you were wondering, a “survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes.”
10:50am
Don’t worry about the economy until fast food joints start losing money.
11:05am
It turns out the new Attorney General is as big a liar as the last one. Gee, who would have seen [...]

Bailing out the rich: Your $$ and Bear Stearns

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

CNBC is reporting that the Treasury has offered to pay the Fed for any losses they incur in the Bear Stearns buyout. (h/t Shaun Mullen)
So let’s get this straight, some investment banks made a bunch of risky deals, essentially investing in worthless loans. Those deals went south, and now, instead of the market doing it’s [...]

Wal-mart sues crippled employee

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

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Check out this crazy story, courtesy of Keith Olbermann:

For those of you without video access, here is the summary from the LA Times:
As chronicled in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Shank, a former overnight shelf-stocker for Wal-Mart in southeastern Missouri, was driving her minivan when she was broadsided by a semi and suffered permanent brain [...]