For men struggling in the tough job market, it seems there’s a pretty high chance they’re also struggling in the love market. A study by ForbesWoman and YourTango found that 75% of women polled would not marry a man who was unemployed. But before you assume that they only polled, as Kanye West would say,
Continue reading …‘Wealthiest Divorcée in History’ Files for Bankruptcy, Gets a Hand from the Donald
June 23, 2011 No CommentIt turns out heartbreak doesn’t pay. Patricia Kluge was once known as “the wealthiest divorcee in history” when she was awarded a reported $1 billion after splitting with media mogul John Kluge in 1990. (LIST: How Married Are You?) But the one-time “pin-up girl” (according to the New York Post) seems to have been no
Continue reading …Travel group AAA reported that because of gas costs more people will forgo road travel on Fourth of July weekend. Fewer people will be taking to the open road this Independence Day, no thanks to high gas prices, says AAA. Holiday road travel is expected to drop 2.5% from a year ago even though the
Continue reading …Congressmen Call for Probe of Honolulu TSA After Failure to Inspect Baggage
June 22, 2011 No CommentCongressman John L. Mica of Florida and Jason Chaffetz of Utah called on the Department of Homeland Security to investigate TSA lapses at Honolulu International Airport in the most recent chapter of a safety debacle at one of the busiest airports in the U.S. The two congressmen, who have both been openly critical of the
Continue reading …Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue). Bitter sports slang: to LeBron it (v.) The NBA finals might have finished last week with a loss for the Miami Heat,
Continue reading …Airline Nightmare: Delta Passenger Finds Recovered Luggage Reeking of Urine
June 22, 2011 No CommentSy Haze says he traveled from London to Minneapolis this week and had his luggage sent to the wrong location three times, only to finally receive it damaged, damp and smelling like urine. Haze uploaded a YouTube video on June 21 upon receiving his luggage in Minneapolis. The journey of his baggage is as follows:
Continue reading …British designer John Galliano went on trial Wednesday in Paris for alleged anti-Semitic remarks made in February and October. Officially charged with “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity”, the high fashion designer attended the one-day trial dressed modestly (for him), wearing black leather pants and a polka-dot necktie. Though Galliano’s slurs
Continue reading …Casey Anthony’s lawyers again called witnesses to dispute forensic evidence as trial proceedings got underway on Wednesday. Yesterday, Dr. Jane Bock, a forensic botanist, offered potential holes in the state’s timeline; today, Michael Sigman, a chemist at the National Center for Forensic Science, testified about air samples in the trunk of Anthony’s car. Air samples
Continue reading …Well, It’s a Backup Plan: Vanilla Ice Offering ‘Off the Hook’ Real Estate Advice
June 22, 2011 No Comment“Ice Ice Baby” catapulted Vanilla Ice to one-hit-wonderdom. Now, the aging rapper has traded hammer pants for a career as a real estate guru. Ice (né Robert Van Winkle) has launched a new website called VanillaIceRealEstate.com. In a video on the ’90s-themed site (guess the soundtrack) Vanilla boasts that he makes bank “pimping out properties”
Continue reading …Homeless Man, Found By a Private Eye, Entitled to ‘Significant’ Inheritance
June 22, 2011 No CommentMax Melitzer can buy himself some new wheels to cart around his belongings. A private investigator spent two months tracking down the Salt Lake City homeless man to tell him that his life will change just a tad, as the recipient of a large inheritance. David Lundberg found Melitzer pushing a shopping cart and had
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