$1 million lotto winner continues to collect food stamps
After receiving a $1 million check from the state lottery, a Michigan resident continued to use a state-issued food stamps card to buy her groceries, according to reports from Detroit Local 4 and the...
View ArticleGirl Scout cookie-buyers pay in counterfeit money
It’s been a tough year for the Girl Scouts. Earlier this month, a troop had their cash swiped while selling cookies outside a Walmart in the Houston area, and now, scammers in several states are trying...
View ArticleMoney day in Canada: Nation kills pennies as coins spill across highway
Under different circumstances, this might be some sort of crazy viral stunt. On the same day Bloomberg reported Canada will soon kill pennies from circulation, a freak accident sent millions of dollars...
View ArticleBest and worst jobs of 2012 range from software engineer to lumberjack
Just ask the founders of Instagram: Software engineers have the best job of 2012, according to a new ranking from careercast.com. Programmers, coders and engineers have a good work environment, low...
View ArticleWalmart, big-box stores linked with hate groups in study
The number of big-box retailers in a community can have social and economic effects that lead to the formation of hate groups, a recent study found. Researchers found a stronger correlation between the...
View Article5 Texas counties rank among the top for job opportunities
Energy and computers help push five Texas counties into the top 10 job markets in a new CNN Money survey. The website’s study tracks a decade of growth in 2000-11 and ranks a total of 25 U.S. counties...
View ArticlePaul Ryan compares Obama to NFL replacement refs
He told a crowd in Cincinnati that the NFL's controversial replacement referees remind him of the president's handling of the economy.
View ArticleRetailers closer to turning Thanksgiving into ‘Black Thursday’
“Black Friday” creep is getting almost as bad as Christmas creep, with retailers pushing things ever earlier. Today, Wal-Mart announced it would open its doors at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. That’s two...
View ArticleRapper kicked off stage at inauguration event
Outspoken political rapper Lupe Fiasco was booted off stage at the StartUp RockOn event Inauguration Celebration at the Hamilton Live in Washington on Sunday night. During the private party, Lupe...
View ArticleLawyer: You can’t take a zombie to court
The job market’s been pretty dire for new law school grads, so perhaps it’s not surprising that one lawyer, Ryan Davidson, is spending his time evaluating the possible legal situations a zombie or...
View ArticleUpdate: What would a Big Mac cost if McDonald’s doubled pay?
Update: The story this blog post was based on: “Doubling McDonald’s Salaries Would Cause Your Big Mac To Cost Just 68¢ More” on The Huffington Post was based an faulty data. The Huffington Post says on...
View ArticleFox News downplays shutdown as just a ‘slimdown’
Fox News has deemed the federal shutdown merely a “slimdown.” Though the network is not using the term on-air, it’s all over its website. Exhibit A: Compare that to, say, the LA Times and every other...
View ArticleBusinessman Tom Perkins apologizes for Holocaust comparison
The treatment of America’s wealthy “one percent” is equivalent to the Kristallnacht, a series of racially-motivated attacks against Jews in Nazi Germany, according to Tom Perkins, one of the founders...
View ArticleStudy: Girls playing with Barbie see fewer career options
It's not a good time to be a Barbie fan, according to researchers from Oregon State and UC- Santa Cruz.
View ArticleSurvey: Average Americans think they’re smarter than their peers
New data from YouGov.com confirm what you probably already knew: Your fellow American is likely a stuffy know-it-all.
View ArticleMcDonald’s new Happy Meal mascot is stuff of nightmares
You can add McDonald’s Happy Meals to things that don’t work well with anthropomorphism. Monday, the fast-food giant tweeted out their latest monstrosity mascot: Happy, a Happy Meal box with googly...
View ArticleSingle people using tigers to win big on online dating sites
Love-starved online daters are reaching into their bag of tricks and they’re pulling out … a tiger? The Wall Street Journal reports there’s been an increase of tigers in people’s online profiles across...
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