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Sun August 26, 2007
Telegraph Stupid NBC bids for British TV station, hopes to reach entirely new level of trans-Atlantic suck (21)
CNBC Silly As U.S. GDP is revised downwards, companies re-price assets downward, and the credit market dries up, CNBC would like you to listen to analysts who think now is the best time to buy. Because, as the Gold Suits say, "It can only go up." (13)
CNN Scary The Fed bends the rules; allows Citigroup and Bank of America to borrow unlimited amounts of money. This can only be another sign of our robust economy. Bonus: They use lots of big words to say "We don't have enough cash on hand." (41)

Sat August 25, 2007
Houston Chronicle Interesting Mickey D's goes for upscale snob effect in European remodel of company and franchised restaurants. Changes include fine furniture, relaxing environments, mad cow-free burgers and surrender fries (89)

Fri August 24, 2007
Newsweek Stupid The housing meltdown isn't hurting the little guy: the heartbreaking tale of how Wall Street execs may have their annual multi-million-dollar bonuses cut by 10 or even 25 percent this year (28)
(Pittsburgh Live) Hero Dunkin Donuts announces massive expansion plans, which should result in corresponding expansion in customer base, mid-section (31)
CNN Interesting Actual headline: "Oil jumps above $70 on strong housing data." (12)
Wall Street Journal Interesting Bank of America has assimilated Countrywide Financial, taking its unique properties and making it their own. Resistance is futile (26)
CNBC Obvious Home Depot accepts a $1.2 billion dollar coupon to rid themselves of their wholesale distribution business. Everybody sues (4)

Thu August 23, 2007
BBC Strange Oil prices down; gasoline prices up. Who says the system's not upside down? (119)
(Consumerist) Amusing Wal-Mart rolls back price by a negative $10.02 (with picture goodness) (29)
AZCentral Sad Krispy Kreme files for sweet, buttery, melty bankruptcy (77)
(IHT) Asinine The sad consequence of the mortgage crisis: Millions losing homes? Thousands losing jobs? Nope, Wall Street execs may get smaller bonuses this year (39)
SLTrib Cool Market reports show great numbers for mining coal in Utah (11)
Yahoo Obvious British Airways fined $300 million for working with Virgin Airlines to fix prices. Bonus: Virgin doesn't get fined because they were the first to tell (12)
NYPost Followup Like her soul, Leona Helmsley gets roasted at her funeral (65)
Boston Globe Amusing Copyright infringement lawsuit over sanitary pads finally coming to an end after a long period (98)
(American Magazine) Interesting Remember back in the 1980s when we were scared of Japan's economy? Good times, good times. Well, they're back (21)
(Some Guy) Obvious Hormel Foods' 3Q profit falls on news that Spam is unpopular (20)
CBS New York Scary OHHHHHHH. Who is poisoning your kids from across the sea? SpongeBob LeadPants (16)
Forbes Interesting Playboy launching college social networking site, expects us to believe those girls are really college students (11)
Reuters Asinine Nokia announces deal with Microsoft that will bring awesome cutting-edge features like Hotmail to company's cell phones (11)

Wed August 22, 2007
AZCentral Followup Mortgage Lender Bankruptcy Trifecta complete: First Magnus Financial Corporation files for bankruptcy (22)
Yahoo Followup Today's "mortgage lenders going tits up" story is Accredited Home Lenders (16)
Yahoo Obvious Stop the presses. Call Ric Romero. California gas station owners allege price fixing by Shell, Chevron (25)
AJC Stupid Progressive Insurance keeps your rates low by infiltrating your church meetings and support groups (98)
ABC News Obvious Porn star takes the name "China Barbie," proceeds to get the lead out in movies, such as "Me Luv You Long Time" and "Ethnic Cheerleaders 8." For some reason, Mattel has a huge honkin' problem with this (102)
(Post-Gazette) Weird McDonald's opens museum to honor Big Mac, perpetuate charade that "special sauce" isn't just Thousand Island dressing (94)
Yahoo Interesting AmeriE-Trade? (3)
(Inside Higher Ed) Dumbass Illinois State University business school threatens to kick out business students who don't come to class in "business casual." Hey, if the liberal-arts students have to wear their future business attire to class, so do you (255)
Free Press Dumbass Delta hires former Northwest CEO who flew that airline right into Chapter 11 (12)

Tue August 21, 2007
(Some Guy) Obvious Not News: News. News: Not News (13)
Yahoo Obvious Watchdog group finds "brutal conditions" at eight Chinese plants that make toys. Walt Disney Company said that it will investigate any such allegations and move production to other facilities where they're less likely to get caught (96)
(Der Spiegel) Hero 150-year-old brewery in Pakistan is preparing to bring their first 20-year-old single-malt whisky to the market, despite the fact that sales are restricted to three percent of the population (77)
(Some Guy) Cool Phillip Morris getting set to make their new smokeless and spitless Marlboro Snus. Chew it libs (18)
WTOP Asinine You head up a multibillion-dollar company that is constantly being sued by your customers. Do you: A) Improve customer service? B) Do nothing? C) Sneakily rewrite your TOS so that customers no longer have the right to sue you? (28)
Yahoo Scary Wells Fargo says you're allowed to have your money again (11)
C|Net Stupid MTV and RealNetwork join forces against Apple. Wonder Twin powers, activate! Form of: Black hole of suck! (40)
UPI Followup Cunning Aer Lingus and pilots meet to end dispute (17)
Yahoo Obvious A classic example of how the rich get richer (53)
Reuters Followup Appeals court stops Whole Foods purchase of their biggest rival from going forward. Hippies' organic potatoes really frosted by now (17)

Mon August 20, 2007
CNN Sad Apparently, "foodstamps" is now a Capital One employee's new response to their question of "what's in your wallet?" (18)
USA Today Obvious Cost of healthcare driving American Senior Citizens to nursing homes in Mexico. ¿Qué podía ir posiblemente mal? (12)
Fox News Cool New DeLorean production now official (34)
AP Interesting Stocks end mostly higher on lack of news. Someone ought to write a book about this (4)
News.com.au Cool "If the bank can't look after their money, if the bank can't do their job properly . . . it's the bank's responsibility" - Bank error in his favour for $11 million, and he's not giving it back (49)
(Some Guy) Obvious Countrywide insider trading: $704 million sold, $73k bought (13)
Marketwatch Followup What? The Dow's UP 100 points? Buy, Mortimer, buy, buy! (16)
Marketwatch Obvious Deutche Bank reportedly taps Federal Reserve. That filthy whore (9)
London Times Followup Skype outage blamed on users rebooting after Microsoft update. So it was basically a one-time occurrence (10)
(Bloomberg) Followup Ah that interest rate cut really fixed things...Wait, why are the prices dropping? Sell Mortimer, sell! (18)
(Louisville Courier-Urinal) Sick Our casino has the loosest slots, bladders (74)
LinuxWorld Interesting Open source developers face H1-B visa puzzle (27)
Forbes Scary Chrysler to import Chinese cars; scary tag barely adequate (26)
Houston Chronicle Obvious Small, local toymakers gain popularity for not murdering children (12)
Telegraph Obvious Email overtakes telephone as main method of communication in business as it is fast, cheap and easy to claim you didn't get the message from your idiot supplier who you didn't want to talk to anyway (8)
Reuters Obvious Swingers are fastest-growing business in U.S. "Any other hobby that I was into at 40 years old is going to cost me $10,000," says one. "Dude, I'm addicted to it, there is no doubt about it" (42)

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