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more about #capitalism more comments → MissNormaDesmond: ? There are comments missing in this thread that were here earlier. #michaeljackson more » Seeräuber Jenny: Joe Jackson is Exhibit A for the existence of Toxic Parents. [www.nytimes.com] more » grayzip002: Joe Jackson is an easy target, and why would Gawker be immune from racisms to which even the New York Times falls prey? Still between this and your ... more » jasonelias: Joe's an awful man. I bet all of the kids are fucked up in several different ways. #michaeljackson more » MissNormaDesmond: Whereas Joe's worthless either way. [Edit] Oh, heh, just scrolled down. Tip o' the hat to Business Guy, who said pretty much the same thing. It is ... more » Steverino Begins: MJ: "Joe would visit and...I would get sick. I would start to regurgitate." #michaeljackson more » marciax3: Remember, Joe's on Team "They Killed Him for Royalties" with Det. LaToya as the the captain. He's just awkwardly trying to set AEG up as villains, bu... more » BunnySkull: Joe "No soul" Jackson, his evil creepy inside matches the creepy evil appearance on the outside; and that's no small feat. He couldn't even manage to... more » 92BuickLeSabre: The truth shall set you free, but it shall also make you look like an asshole. more » krisnt: Villify Joe Jackson, if you will, but what he said is true. Has no bearing on whether or not he loved his son. Sensational journalism designed to ma... more » TheBusinessGuy: Michael may be worth more dead than alive. Joe is worthless either way. #michaeljackson more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The part about the $$$ could be true, and that's sad, too. #michaeljackson more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: You gotta take a chance; you gotta take a risk. There's no sure things. You try to work out—using your vast and extensive brain-lodged database of k... more » Christian_Okoye_Dokoye: Interrupted by moochers? This isn't "Breaking Away." #capitalism more » Clare: It's just like the Wu Tang Clan said: Cats rule everything around me. #trendwatch more » -
#thisisit
Joe Jackson Assists Michael Jackson's Posthumous Valuation: "He's Worth More Dead Than Alive"
And you think your parents are bad? This Is It comes out this weekend. To celebrate, Joe Jackson isn't remembering his son's life. He's telling Extra that Michael Jackson's worth more dead than he is alive. More » -
#worldseries
Foul-mouthed Ticket Scalper Expounds on Life, Love, and the Sex-for-Phillies-Tickets Scandal
One thing we learned from the case of the Philadelphia woman accused of trying to trade sex for Phillies tickets is that the underground ticket game is hard. This veteran ticket scalper we talked to certainly reinforced this lesson! More » -
#recessionomics
Wall Street Fat Cats Finally Back on Track
The Way We Live Now: Tip-top! "Wall Street on Track to Award Record Pay." Meanwhile, we're cutting the pay of non-Wall Streeters in half, and lowering the minimum wage. The rational market at work! More » -
#thecutespiracy
Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
Sometimes you just want to grab The American Consumer about the shoulders, and shake him, and yell: "Hey, stop being such a sucker!" Because...OMG a fuzzy wuzzy baby seal! I must buy so much Dawn® brand product, or he dies. More » -
#shutupbrooklyn
Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
Yuppie entrepreneurs across brownstone Brooklyn are uniting to protect their communities: Instead of competing, why not have all the cheese shops, wine shops, coffee shops, and yoga studios band together, as a chain? Keep out those dreaded other chains! More » -
#accidents
Newt Gingrich Briefly Honors Porn Industry
Whoops! Newt Gingrich accidentally named a porn producer "Entrepreneur of the Year." For like a day. Then he rescinded it, the bastard. Why does he hate capitalism? More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Flu Prevention Now in Multimedia Form!
Back in 1918, when a flu epidemic brought America to its knees, there weren't many innovations in the way of germ-fighting tactics. Well, this is the 21st century, which means there are plenty of new, inventive ways to encourage prevention. More » -
#trendwatch
Family Members Pimped Out in Desperate Snuggie Wars Gambit
Months after Barack Obama's election, America is still as deeply embroiled in the Snuggie Wars as ever. As Snuggies and Slankets fend off guerilla attacks from Sealpelts and Lippi Selk bags, the Wearable Towel is making its dumb, ruthless move. More » -
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#tourism
Recession Forcing Dubai to Treat Rich Foreigners Like Poor Locals
American Entrepreneur, have you heard of Dubai? It is a capitalist paradise! A veritable Galt's Gulch of the Gulf. A playground for the wealthy built on cheap foreign labor, oil, tourism, and real estate speculation? What could go wrong! More » -
#capitalism
Get Your North Korean Propaganda Goodies From CafePress While They're Hot
In what has to be one of the more interesting internet finds in the history of blogging, Webnewser's Hunter Walker has stumbled across an official North Korean CafePress page where you can purchase brutal totalitarian regime-themed mugs, T-shirts, caps, etc. More » -
#theworkplace
How to Blow a Job Interview, Illustrated
Now this is a useful website: HowToNailAnInterview.com. Some guys with secret cameras taped dozens of people interviewing for a job, and culled the wisdom for you. Example: don't reveal that your husband's a Sasquatch hunter. More » -
#recessionomics
Relax; There's Always a Career in Hot Dogs
Having no money: it may cause stress! Insightful insights like this from scientific experts are just one of the recession's silver linings. (Linings now made of lower-cost aluminum). More » -
#recessionomics
The Perfect Balance of Capitalism
Stocks are down this morning, on concerns about the health of the financial sector. But the foreclosure business is booming, on optimism of more and more and more foreclosures! More » -
#crimepays
Siemens Forced to Pay Billions in Fees for Paying Billions in Bribes
Here is your flat-world global economy: Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, just paid $1.6 billion in fees for all the bribery they've been up to since the end of World War II, back when they were Nazis. More » -
#classicads
Back When America Was Goofier
Pop culture is always a step behind the real cutting-edge culture that defines what's cool in the current zeitgeist. And mass media advertising, with its drive for universal appeal, is generally made from an even weaker brew than pop culture. What that means for us is that these ads from the 1950s and 60s—which lack not only today's sense of political correctness, but also their own era's sense of cool—are an entertaining lens through which to view the age of beatniks and free love. Groove your way to the hippie party with a 1969 stereo in your new General Motors automobile! Six classic examples [via Flickr/ Coudal], after the jump. More »
