For 10 years—including the boom times banks enjoyed in the first half of this decade—the FDIC was prevented from collecting fees from 95% of financial institutions, which it would have used to further build up its safety net in the event it would someday have to bail out a bunch of stupi...

So a mini-spat has taken root in the world of Fantasy sports blogging. Baseball-centric site Razzball interviewed ESPN's Matthew Berry last week, but he wasn't too pleased with the results. In Berry's marathon ESPN chat, he was asked by a reader about the interview and he offered a long response as ...

If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there's a guy on Craigslist who's looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing that someone has to take the fall? Has your ponzi scheme enveloped numerous celebrity-endorsed chariti...

Casie's probably right, but given the state of the credit market these days, suicide seems to be an appropriate point of reference! In fact, I'd have doubled down. To wit:...

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Rush Limbaugh as Frank Sinatra/Major Bennett Marco? No, I don't think so ... Not in a million years, and all the CGI you can generate. Kevin Hassett, on Bloomberg today, has a column calling President Obama "The Manchurian Candidate" , because, after all, Obama has launched a War on Business and is ...

The Starting Five's Michael Tillery unleashed Part II of his epic Skip Bayless interview and today we find out some of the reasons Skip became a full-blown Barry Bonds supporter. Blame it on Jeff Kent. Oh, and Rick Reilly. Starting Five: • [I]n April of 2001, Rick Reilly…then the columnist at Sp...

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I stuck out my tongue in front of the mirror yesterday morning, and what did I see? Red sore patches, with whitish borders. My tongue looks like someone beat it up, and that's how it feels, too.  So, being no dummy, I called my oncologist's office and talked to one of his nurses. She a...