Un ‘f*&#*ng’ believable. Insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in tax-payer funded bailout, is paying out over $700 hundred million in bonus and retention payments to its employees, according to the Washington Post. The feeble excuse – AIG is contractually obligated to pay the money. But U.S. courts have routinely thrown out contracts […]
The monkeys are definitely calling the shots in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Not content with beating up girls for the sin of drinking in a pub, razing churches and threatening to derail Valentine’s Day celebrations, the modern-day descendants of the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman are now turning their ire against the late film legend Charlie […]
News is what somebody somewhere is trying to suppress. The rest is advertising. – Lord Northcliffe, cited in New Yorker, March 9, 2009 P.21 Sadly, the news business is in dire straits in America these days. Every other day, it seems like a newspaper is folding in the U.S. The 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News shut […]