ATTENTION ALL NEGROES: If you are over 50 years old, a learned scholar, walk with a cane, and have difficulty opening the front door of your own home, you will be arrested for being a grown ass man in your own house. I learned a new word this week– mancession–a recession in which most of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recession’
Signs of the Apocalypse or Random Musings for 7/22/09
Posted in Random Thoughts, recession, Tomfoolery, tagged Henry Louis Gates, Jr., mancession, recession, white males on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shopping Closet[s]
Posted in family, Tomfoolery, tagged recession, shop your closet, siblings on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
During the recession, the media has been advising people to “shop their closets” and find “new” clothes by breaking out items you haven’t worn in a while. Well this week, I was house-sitting for my parents and, while staying in my younger brother’s old room, I decided to see what was what. My brother has [...]
A World Gone Mad
Posted in recession, tagged $53000, $53000 a week, AIG, automotive industry, Obama, recession on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week certain news outlets were reoporting on this woman in Connecticut who is divorcing her husband and contesting a post-nuptial agreement she signed. Her beef? $43 million dollars is not enough to live on. She spends $53,000 a week and at that pace, she’ll burn through the money in about 15 years. After I [...]
Gordon Gecko was a Punk-Ass Bitch
Posted in recession, tagged Edward Liddy, Gordon Gecko, greed, populist outrage, recession, Wall Street on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, it’s official. The age of greed is dead, or at least is dying an agonizing death. The White House this week has spent a lot of time trying to quell the so-called ”populist outrage” against AIG which signed up for welfare and then dared to pay undeserving executives millions of dollars in bonuses. But we’re not satisfied seeing CEO [...]