I usually try to avoid reverse-snobbism disdain for the rich -- that's the left's job, and I wouldn't want to put anybody out of business. But every once in a while a story comes along that pushes my "they have way too much money to throw around" button:
Posh Manhattan moms and dads are taking parental obsessiveness to new heights — by hiring $400-an-hour recreation “experts” to organize play dates for their children.
Sounds like being on a jury in Florida might be more fun than my last vacation:
The sequestration of the jury that ultimately acquitted George Zimmerman cost Florida taxpayers about $33,000 and allowed jurors creature comforts such as dinner at Outback Steakhouse, a bowling excursion and a trip to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.
"I was just following the vice president's advice" is good for a laugh but not a smart self-defense claim:
Wow, talk about lost causes and futile efforts:
A UFO group is convinced it can rehabilitate the image of the swastika no matter what furor it causes.
Why farmers scoff at climate change hype:
Fark headlined this story, "Edward Snowden just went full Soviet," which has the virtue of being both funny and sad:
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, officials say.
Man, I could almost retire on that amount:
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
Is this the perfect symbol for the continuing lousy state of the economy, or what?
NEW YORK (AP) — Twinkies are back, but they may be a bit smaller than you remember.
The new owners of Hostess have leaner operating costs now that they're no longer using unionized workers. It turns out the spongy yellow cakes may also be a little smaller than the last Twinkies people ate.
Getting a little strange in the NBA, I guess:
It was a close encounter of the hoops kind.
Former Knicks player Baron Davis says he was “actually abducted by aliens.”
I generally stayed away from the hoopla surrounding the George Zimmerman trial, nothing only that the state's case seemed (from a distance) to have enough holes in it to create reasonable doubt. Apparently, the jury agreed, so that's that.
