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It’s easy to get a personal loan today
No one likes the thought of borrowing money. But most of us have had to do it at one time or another. Especially today, with the cost of living soaring and incomes dropping, sometimes you have to get [...]
2 dead from tainted beef in New England
The Center for Disease Control has issued warnings for people on the Eastern seaboard to watch out for a large shipment of recalled beef, as up to over a half a million pounds of ground beef have been found to be contaminated with [...]
Wasted space on my DVR
Last night, “How I Met Your Mother” took a little mid-season break, which is a perfectly normal thing for a sit-com or any television series to do. However, nowadays a lot of people watch their favorite shows online or recorded on a DVR, so if there [...]
ESPN Analyst Steve Phillips Suspended
First it was Letterman, now ESPN MLB analyst Steve Phillips is in the spotlight for the same mischievous deed. Steve Phillips has been suspended for a week by ESPN after reports of an affair he had with a 22-year-old production assistant named Brooke Hundley. Things are [...]
Lexus and Toyota vehicles affected by recall
When the world’s largest automaker recalls 3.8 million cars, you know something serious is going on. That’s exactly what the recent Toyota recall has done because of floor mats that present a risk of causing accidents. Removing the mats and obtaining new ones (even [...]
Kate Gosselin’s new job
Today marked the start of Kate Gosselin’s new two-day temp job: Kate Gosselin on “The View” today and tomorrow is filling in for Barbara Walters. She shared some insight this morning into why she still is doing the show with all of the turmoil in her life.
This [...]
You work hard to bring home the bacon but you live on chicken feed
The rent is due
Your landlord doesn’t care why you’re down and out. He makes a bundle, but he won’t pay a penny for your thoughts. In his eyes you’re a deadbeat and he wants cold [...]
To get the best deal on a loan today, you need better credit than ever before
We’re in the middle of a credit crunch, and getting an installment loan – whether it’s an auto loan, a home loan, or a personal loan – requires better credit than ever before. Creditors [...]
Time Traveler’s Wife might not be best choice
Trying to decide what movie to go see? I have plenty of friends who are interested in seeing “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” but after seeing the movie reviews, I am considering whether I should advise them against it.
Then again, the makers of this [...]
Squirrel Vacation Picture gets famous
The days when funny family photos ended up in an album gathering dust on a shelf are no more. If people want to share their photos with the world, it’s as easy as pie. Awkwardfamilyphotos.com is one site built around the concept of, well, awkward family [...]
The leak is more a torrent than a trickle
For people living from paycheck to paycheck without health insurance, it would take a hefty cash advance or personal loan just to step inside a doctor’s office. And for people who have health insurance or extra cash stashed away for medical [...]
Gonna make you sweat… block
Sometimes, products come around that fill the right need at the right time. Payday loan and personal loan companies stepped forward to fill a need that banks and credit unions refused to adequately address.
Other times, products surface because we think there’s a particular need for them, [...]
Live peacefully with nature
“You know they call them killer whales
But you seem surprised
When it pinned you down to the bottom of the tank
Where you can’t turn around
It took half your leg and both your lungs”
- From “People Gotta Lot of Nerve” by Neko Case
Making pets of wild animals can be [...]
Why is the price of fruit so high this summer?
It’s how we are made, I guess. The whole winter we dream about summer and the summer fruit and all the way through the winter months, I for one, drool at the thought of eating juicy oranges, a winter fruit. So [...]
Not-a-Diet web site goes pro bono
Author of the book “French Women Don’t Get Fat” Mireille Guiliano, or possibly her agent, used to charge a fee for online access to her tips on staying thin. However, frenchwomendontgetfat.com is now a free site, so you and I and everyone we know can [...]
Engagement Chicken in the news
I have read all about it, and I still think the concept behind engagement chicken is crazy. Publications including Glamour magazine and even one Fox News entertainment writer are convinced that there’s a magical dish called Engagement Chicken that will inspire your significant other to get [...]
Hi June – what kind of month are you going to be?
May was indeed a Merry Month for me here in the Home Office. I hope everyone’s May was as abundant as mine, but from the statistics, it is clear that the recession is still dragging on for so many [...]
There are only a couple of zeros between James Bond and me
We all remember James Bond, aka 007, aka Sean Connery, the retired hit man and/or spy who now sits on a log on the back page of the paper drooling over his super-expensive Louis Vuitton sports bag. We’re a [...]
I decided to do something a little different
Guess what! I’m in Paris. I turned on the TV and saw that the French Open Tennis was about to start, so I grabbed my whites and a pair of sunglasses and caught the first available plane to Paris, France. With the recession [...]