Your jobs are gone. Your money is gone. But America's iconic brands will never leave you! (Until the rest of your money is gone). Advertising is the last optimistic thing around. And it's faking it. With admirable speed, the advertising industry started running "Times are Hard"-type ads almost immed...

Lois Draegin was an editor at TV Guide before she got laid off—now she has an internship to help her build internet skills. That's admirable! But the internship's kind of awful. We should know! Draegin, who is 55, is now an intern at Liz Smith-publishing older women's site Wowowowowowowow.com....

Grandparents: they hate their grandkids nowadays! It's all detailed right there in a brand new breaking trend story from the New York Times , the Paper of Record. Nobody likes anybody any more! We sure do read lots of totally made-up trend stories, but this one is the most flimsily justified we've s...

If you ever idly considered going to Buenos Aires to enjoy its humid subtropical climate, tango music, and world famous zoo, just forget it. The entire city is now populated by laid-off American bankers. Apparently a visit to the Teatro Colon or a sightseeing stroll over to Pablo Neruda's old house ...

While America's new president is totally cool with you smoking weed, other countries are not so lucky. Did you know Japan is like a dark ages bizarro world that is shocked by ganja? It's true! According to the American media (consisting of reporters who are high, mostly), Japanese authority figures ...

You know how when all the water finally evaporates from your dirty, clogged sink, you get to see how many roaches were really drowned in there? That's how Wall Street is now, with frauds! Today we have three—count em, then count em again with a more honest accountant—three new mini-Madof...

It's Thursday—the day when the New York Times Style section constructs tenuous trend stories designed to infuriate us about largely illusory issues! Woo hoo! Today's trend: crazy parents turn their kids into health food zombies! Sure, you want to teach your kids to eat healthy food. But some p...

The publishing industry is led by experienced professionals with deep knowledge of literary appeal. So if they say Kathy Griffin deserves a $2 million book deal, who are you, the public, to argue? Today Condoleezza Rice signed a three-book deal worth $2.5 million. Okay, maybe a bit more than you wan...

As if it wasn't bad enough that Bernie Madoff went and took millions from wealthy Jewish people in Palm Beach and then made it disappear, it seems some gentiles down there are happy about it! Crack ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross traveled to darkest Palm Beach and discovered: some people suspe...

Spencer Morgan at the New York Observer writes weekly about a particularly annoying person or trend. Today he truly outdoes himself, with the definitive article on freaky penis foreskin restorers. Fancy penis synonyms, too! STANDARD DISCLAIMER: Is this really a trend? Eh, doesn't really matter. Used...