"She had planned to visit the Medina in Fez, the souks in Marrakesh and the mosques in Casablanca. But the Moroccan vacation would have set Nancy Yale back $15,000 for her family of five. And after laying off a full- and part-time employee last fall, the travel agency owner in Fairfield, Conn.,...

"BMG Music Club, the last of the old "12 CDs for a penny" clubs from the old days, which taught many a CD-crazy youngster about what a "collection agency" was back in the day thanks to its strategy for mailing its monthly selections if a card saying "I don't want th...

Lost Recap 5×08: LaFleur “What’s the matter, Lassie? Did Locke fall down the well??â€� “WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIANNNNNN.â€� “Um, sir? We have…a bit of a situation. Code Orange: Drunk hippie with dynamite in the Valley Sector.â€� And then LaFleur is like “SON OF A BITCHâ€� and we’re like, â...

English Octomom. No, she didn't have 8 at once, but she acts pretty much the same way. This one actually boinks the dudes, goes off the Pill, doesn't bother to mention it to the guy until it's too late, then wonders why they aren't hyped to be a dad. Sigh. Oh yeah, and she still won&...

"Recession therapy" in the UK....

A moment from Battlestar.  "We had them sign confidentiality statements and as they were doing so, one of our employees overheard the woman and her friend stressing about me, hoping I wouldn’t recognize them as two writers from Television Without Pity who had slammed me as a misogynist ...

The case against.  "Cally's death is an example of a worrisome trend: The main female characters are all dying, dead, or not human. Ellen, Sharon, D'Anna, and Tory Foster—all strong female characters, have all turned out to be Cylons, and Starbuck was recently revealed as a half...

We get it, there's a recession, thanks. NOW SHUT THE CRAP UP ABOUT IT....

"hey, can we please get back to the sexy topic of this person and their submissive bruising asses and grinning about it? why are we talking about homeopathic medicine?!"...

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