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more about #iceland more comments → raincoaster: Back in the day we didn't call them "loan modification agents." We called them Vito and Butch. #trendwatch more » Parah_Salin: Best thing ever written about those damned subprime swindlers: "After a lot of unsuspecting investors were lured by the poor into putting their hard-e... more » krudd: In many states (now including California), it's illegal for loan mod agents to collect an up-front fee. There may have been far less violent and comp... more » Z und Vielpunkt's chick: McDonald's is leaving Iceland? Crazy, are they closing BOTH of them? #trendwatch more » Spirit Fingers: Heh, HamNo. Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and shootin some b-ball outside of the school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good started... more » Lymed: Prostitution is a job. It might not have benefits or provide a w-2. But it is a job. #trendwatch more » naugahydeinplainsight: Meanwhile Sarah Palin reports already receiving $1.25 million "retainer" for Going Rogue with remainder of a larger advance likely to come. There is ... more » DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: In Iceland's case, I heard the NPR story earlier today. McDonald's (corporate/standards) is to take a lot of the blame. And the owner of the first Ice... more » naugahydeinplainsight: From what I have read, the loan modification "victims" probably deserved it. What sounded like a pretty good idea from Obama got screwed up when it ... more » TheHonJudgeSmails: The good news is that the story about Iceland ran in a magazine that very few people actually read. more » misslinda: Jeez, people, stop picking on quirky little Iceland! Ya don't see anyone mocking Smudge Wednesday, or Palm Tree Sunday, or Fish Friday, or the story a... more » Mount_Prion: Argh! They fired Abrams? How will he afford his salvia now? Daddy needs to fly. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: She has a very well-defined orbicularis orbis, and according to HuffPo: "...a recent Gallup poll 73 percent of respondents said they were satisfied wi... more » NoWireHangers: Yes, and all it took for Iceland to appoint the world's first openly gay leader was the complete and utter collapse of their financial system, the sur... more » lobstr: ..but does she know how to make a vintage-era cocktail? more » -
#recessionomics
Yes You Were Tortured and Forced Into Prostitution, But at Least You Don't Have to Go to Work
The Way We Live Now: To the extreme. We will sell ourselves for food. We will torture someone over loan modifications. We will make an entire nation too broke to afford McDonald's. What a seductive lifestyle! More » -
#mediacrack
Please Hire Betty Wales
In your deluged Monday media column: Conde's heartbreaking receptionist layoff, the Miami Herald is JUST FINE, Lee Abrams is a cuddly animal, and Iceland is so touchy: More » -
#progress
Iceland Appoints World's First Openly Gay Leader
Even as their country plummets down the geyser hole, Icelanders are still awfully nice to gay people. They've appointed an out-and-proud lesbian to be their interim Prime Minister, a world first the papers say. More »
