Is it class warfare or just plain meanness? A banker's $1.33 tip on a bill of $133 has some people crying "Scrooge!" To make matters worse, the self-righteous diner circled the word "tip" on the bill and suggested the server "get a real job."
I've been noticing lately, the comment numbering is off. I had commented on a seed in the #1 thread, and when i checked on it later, scrolled to look for #1.xx and notice I was already in thread #23.
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Rick Perry unleashed a furious response to a White House memo urging the State Department to promote LGBT rights in foreign countries on Tuesday. “This administration’s war on traditional American values must stop,” he said in a statement. The memo in ques …
According to Wikipedia, "[Labor Day] is often regarded as a day of rest and parties." The Department of Labor website states, "Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American wo …
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Once upon a time, labor and those who did the labor were something to be celebrated, not despised, disdained, and reduced to servitude. But that’s where we’ve come to: laborers are disdained, the unions that protect them objectified as the enemy, while the …
Wherever they are, I wonder if Harry S. Dent, Sr.
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The debt ceiling agreement passed by Congress today sets up a 12-person "super committee" with extraordinary powers and the mandate to locate $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and/or increased revenues for expedited vote by December.
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network In recent years, Ailes has increasingly become a headache for News Corp.
Amateur psychoanalysis ahead. There's been a lot of banning of reregistering banned users - referred to as 'reregs' around these parts - in the last few weeks. Some of the bannings have been followed by wonderment at the fact that people keep reregging.
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Yesterday, Cantor announced a piece of legislation that might as well legalize hobbit marriage and cut the budget for time-traveling DeLoreans. It's just that fantastical.
February 20, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A 22-year-old northwest suburban man who is a student at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb has been charged in the shooting Friday morning of another student on the school's campus.
On Sept. 12, 2001, there were no commercial flights in the United States. It was uncertain when airlines would be permitted to start flying again—or how many customers would be on them.
For all his eminence—or maybe because of it—the funeral for Irving Kristol this past September was an understated affair.
Van Halen is postponing some dates on its summer concert tour.
Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today. The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman's version of what happened …
The Republican Party is the real party of American women. And women have played a huge role in our party’s success. We have a dynamic group of 24 women in the House, including a record nine freshmen. Four of the six women governors today are Republicans. We’re al …
A day before Congress weighs an amendment to end indefinite military detentions in the U.S., a federal judge Wednesday ruled the law that allows the practice unconstitutional. Saying the measure has "chilling impact on First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Katherine For …
NBC News anchor Brian Williams appeared on CBS’ The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night. Letterman discussed Williams’s special on Rock Center about the killing of Osama bin Laden and became agitated when describing President Barack Obama’s success …
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