March 08, 2009
Shepard Fairey is America's darling, ever since that Obama 'HOPE' poster. The AP looked like jerks when they complained about him stealing their photo. But! Fairey will sue your ass for stealing his brand, quick. See, if you try to sell anything featuring the word "Obey" you are totally stealing fro...
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Hamilton Nolan
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March 06, 2009
One of the saddest celebrity relationship stories of all-time gets worse by the day. Yesterday, a tabloid published Rihanna's personal phone number, Chris Brown obtained a reprieve and... oh no... now there are strong rumors that the two may have gotten married in secret. There must be so...
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Brian Fairbanks
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March 02, 2009
Remember Republic Windows and Doors? The company that kicked off Depression 2.0 by staging the last successful labor sit-in that will ever happen? Yet more good news: they found a buyer! This is the only good story of this miserable economy, that the union workers of a small-ish Chicago factory are ...
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Pareene
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February 27, 2009
The rhetoric a few weeks back from Obama's new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on China's currency "manipulation" has generated a bit of a response. Here's a sampling: The Economist: Attacks on China’s cheap currency are overdone CHINA has been accuse...
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
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Simon Lester
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February 25, 2009
Vilnius, Lithuania - The Jewish community in Vilna refuses to allow the local Chabad rabbi to enter the main shul, even though the rabbi has to say Kaddish and has no other minyan where he can say it. Tense, acrid relations have existed between the Jewish community and Rabbi Krinsky since 2004, when...
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February 23, 2009
SportsJudge.com - The Dispute Resolution Service of Advanced Fantasy Baseball In today’s high paced, intensely competitive world, the constant strive for professionalism in fantasy sports is hardly uncommon. Despite this, no one is perfect, and problems do occur. With that in mind, SportsJudge pri...
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Jon Williams
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February 12, 2009
Man remember back when there was this thing called “the dole,” and you could live on it forever while you traveled the country on freight trains, singing hobo medleys and strumming on a banjo? All that changed when Ronald Reagan came to office and cracked down on Welfare Queens, with the...
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Sara K. Smith
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February 10, 2009
It turns out T.R. Knight isn't the only actor leaving the cast of Grey's Anatomy. Katherine Heigl is on her way out, too. [Defamer] Rihanna, who was allegedly beat-up by her boyfriend Chris Brown, has been released from the hospital but is postponing a show she's set to play in Ma...
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Emily Farris
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January 09, 2009
We don't know what the hell happened with this customer service situation, but somehow the CSR for Vonage decided that when Sarah abruptly hung up on him, she agreed by default to a service cancellation and $92 cancellation fee. That sounds like the kind of angry-CSR "mistake" that can be fixed with...
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Chris Walters
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December 04, 2008
Hebron settler and young daughter evicted from House of Dispute (Sebastian Scheiner/AP) The Israeli government finally did what it should have done months ago and forcibly evicted 200 hardline settlers from the House of Dispute in Hebron after the Supreme Court ruled that the building had been ̵...
Tikun Olam-תקון עול�: Make the World a Better Place » Mideast Peace
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