Shame: AIG Idiots get $721m in Bonus, Retention Pay

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 […]

Hindu Monkeys Target Charlie Chaplin

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 […]

Quote of the Day – Lord Northcliffe

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 […]