Anantomy of a Scam Letter

I would venture to say that anyone who uses e-mail gets a few of these over a period of time: a letter, usually from points foreign, from someone, often a widow or sickly person, tellingyou tales of woe. But for some bizarre reason, they have oodles of money. And they have chose you to help [...]

Subway hero "trumped?"

Hate to be cynical (yeh, right), but does anyone else have the feeling that Donald Trump offerred Wesley Autrey, the hero who jumped onto the NY City subway tracks to save a stranger, that $10,000 for the PR value, especially in light of his recent negative press for his squabbles with Rosie O’Donnell?

"Not Buying It?" I’ll buy that

So I was reading Judith Levine’s book Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. What a crazy concept! Stop buying things you don’t need.
As my daughter has gotten older, her tastes have changed. No longer is she content with shopping at discount stores. She gravitates to places like Abercrombie, Delia’s, American Eagle (not even sue [...]

The general opinion of bloggers, paraphrasing a great philosopher

“See Lisa, instead of one big shot controlling all the media, now there’s a thousand freaks [blogging] their worthless opinions.”
Homer Simpson in Fraudcast News