| (Bellingham Herald) | Would all of the indicators of a robust economy please step forward? Hold on a second there, livable wage | (112) | |
| That sound you just heard was thousands of investment bankers crashing their yachts after having a heart attack. "No federal bail out for you. Not yours." | (18) | ||
| The fantastically brilliant business practice of "No Money Down" home loans is looking like a really stupid idea | (11) | ||
| Ban on British beef back. But bovine believers buck up: boycott brief | (12) | ||
| UPS celebrates one hundred years of delivering packages, running over dogs | (14) | ||
| (Some Guy) | A simple T-shirt, with a logo stamped across it, probably manufactured for pennies in a third-world sweatshop, now costs twice as much as an album of digitally pristine, highly wrought music recorded in a state of the art western studio | (32) |
| U.S. bankruptcy filings up 38% from last year | (39) | ||
| Man learns the hard way what a reserve is on eBay after court orders him to hand over a vintage plane worth $215,000 | (61) | ||
| Study finds that asshole bosses get promoted instead of punished. Obvious tag explodes | (20) | ||
| Hey, remember that guy in the Bible who parted the waters and took out the entire Egyptian army? Well he's back, but he's no match for the Clean Water Act | (39) | ||
| (MarketPlace.org) | The symbol of Swiss ingenuity soon to be made in China | (22) | |
| Airline pilots took 50% paycut and CEO got a $40m bonus. Aviation experts agree: "when upcoming contract negotiations begin, start buying lots of Greyhound Bus tickets" | (24) |
| Step 1: Build social-networking site. Step 2: Sell advertising. Step 3: Profit (until the advertisers see their products appearing on the pages of politically-questionable parties) | (36) | ||
| (Some Guy) | A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it, but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as “out of control” and incompetent | (20) | |
| You didn't plan on retiring in the next decade or so, did you? The U.S. economy just collapsed | (66) | ||
| Headline from the Future: Ford reports 12th consecutive quarterly loss in a row, still suffering the consequences of the Great Recall of Summer 2007 | (18) | ||
| (Some Complete Tools) | Tivo a show in your media room and want to watch it on the bedroom TV? Broadcasters think it should be a surchargin' | (126) | |
| Five-person panel formed to protect the independence and integrity of Dow Jones during its takeover includes an MIT professor who received $2.9 million... from News Corp | (77) | ||
| Step 1: Buy Chrysler for $36B USD Step 2: Sell 80% of Chrysler for $7.4B Step 3: Profit? FAIL | (28) | ||
| Lenovo to sell $199 PC in rural China; to continue selling $599 PCs for $1,499 in US | (15) | ||
| House OKs prescription drug imports | (79) | ||
| American Home Mortgage files for chapter 11 | (32) |
| (Some Guy) | Young women outearn young men in NYC and other large U.S. cities. Where's your goddess now, NOW? | (162) | |
| WWE's stock has fallen eight percent since Chris Benoit's death | (26) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Since the Segway was so successful, media hype is starting to build around Dean Kamen's next big invention | (113) | |
| Volkswagen to premiere eight new models at Frankfurt show and send only the least well received versions to the U.S. market | (16) | ||
| Parent company of Samuel Adams beer buys Pennsylvania brewery for $55 million. That's a whole lot of Summer Ale and Winter Lager | (24) | ||
| Stocks rise cautiously after earnings. With pic of cute raven-haired trader | (21) | ||
| Good News: Northwest Airlines reaches a deal that will solve most of their cancellation problems. Bad News: That guy named "Truck" who drinks sterno in the park? He's your pilot now | (4) | ||
| Huge tech companies with massive patent portfolios see nothing wrong with today's system that can't be hashed out in court. That is, if no one has patented that idea yet | (11) | ||
| Disney buys pre-teen oriented online community for $350 million. Drew puts on mouse ears and begins figuring out how to add penguins to Fark | (22) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The tallest building in North America is now under construction | (52) |
| American automakers now represent 49.5 percent of the U.S. auto market. Suck it, cars | (24) | ||
| Will all the Australian expatriates that think they are allowed to purchase Dow Jones please step forward. Whoa, not so fast Rupert | (44) | ||
| Bally Total Fitness files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In related news, McDonald's posted record profits this quarter | (35) | ||
| Beazer Homes stock plunges 40% on news that they are NOT, repeat, NOT going bankrupt. Yeah, I'm glad I keep my money in coffee cans buried in the yard | (25) | ||
| (theinquirer.net) | Did Intel run a racist ad? Inquiring minds want to know (with OMG-what-were-they-thinking pic) | (165) | |
| Dow Jones zigs to red numbers, blames Democrats not pronouncing Murdoch's name with sufficient respect | (7) | ||
| British Airways fined £121.5m ($243m) for fixing fuel surcharges, which coincidentally is the price they'll be charging for tickets next month | (4) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Domino's Pizza now allows customers to order online. A radical shift in American tradition where people usually take garbage AWAY from your house | (40) |
| (Some Guy) | Dow Jones industrials lost nearly 150 points because of **shakes overused Magic 8-Ball that gives subby a dirty look** renewed concerns about soured home loans | (109) | |
| Rupert Murdoch has gained control of the Wall Street Journal. EVERYBODY PANIC | (105) | ||
| Wal-Mart under fire again, this time for helping thousands of teens develop valuable job skills by allowing them to work as unpaid bag boys in its stores | (46) | ||
| Oil settles above $78 a barrel because of **shakes Magic 8 Ball** reports of new violence in Nigeria. Bonus: sets new price record | (191) | ||
| Looking forward to buying your first home? Better hope you didn't pick American Home Mortgage. They be in the crapper | (22) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Pizza chain that dosen't cook their wares wins 5th consecutive award for best in America, submitter's wifie wants a new car | (69) | |
| Apple sells three-billionth download from iTunes. Cue the whiners, naysayers and all four people who own the Zune | (146) | ||
| (Some Leeches) | Music industry douchebags are now suing Apple for actually SELLING their client's music downloads. Which makes them money. For doing nothing | (39) | |
| GM announces a second-quarter profit of $891 million. Wait, what? | (19) | ||
| Treasury Secretary asks Congress to raise debt ceiling. Again | (220) | ||
| Since a patent was issued for clicking a button to buy an item on-line, the company holding it actually thinks it's worth money. Subby plans to patent dancing monkeys | (16) | ||
| Consumer confidence hits six year high. Quick, someone blame Bush | (325) | ||
| Rupert Murdoch acquires Dow Jones, completing the final piece of his empire. Ehhhxcellent | (129) | ||
| (Rochester D&C) | Bad: Repo man comes looking for your cars. Fark: You own a Ford dealership | (25) | |
| Burger King's "King" was designed to be "a little creepy." Where is your god now? | (33) |
| Rising cheese prices cut profits. No, you can't have affordable cheese. Nachos | (115) | ||
| Where are the "OMG WTF the stock market is crashing" folks today? | (38) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Half of all U.S. employees work with a "workplace princess." "We defined this as a co-worker who had a special sense of entitlement or privilege" | (182) | |
| Learning a good lesson in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, 14% of new policy holders since 2005 have cancelled their flood insurance policies in Louisianna | (16) | ||
| Experts say a Norwegian electric car called "Think City" may just be the one that reverses 100 years of automotive history. Have you driven a Fjord lately? (pic) | (10) | ||
| DynCorp stock plunges on news that we're going to have a Democrat as our next president, withdraw from Iraq, and turn our aircraft carriers into plowshares | (6) | ||
| The last unbiased news source is about to be eaten and shat out by "Fair and Balanced" NewsCorp. Suck it, everyone | (27) | ||
| (The Motley Fool) | With the completion of the quadrifecta last week, finance journalist goes 4 for 4 in predicting which CEOs would get the axe in 2007 | (1) | |
| Sell, Mortimer. Sell. Selllllllllllllllllllll | (17) | ||
| Northwest "Airlines" cancels more than 200 peak travel-season flights due to lack of pilots. If only there was some way to predict how many flights they had scheduled | (40) |