Recently, Jon Stewart, host of The Comedy Network’s “The Daily Show,” has been launching hilarious barbs at CNBC for faulty financial reporting. Coming under particularly heavy fire were Jim Cramer, the rambunctious host of “Mad Money,” who has offered some blatantly bad advice, and Rick Santelli, who, in a recent video explosion, called unfortunate mortgage-holders […]
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Jonesing for Scrabulous
By guest blogger Catherine Nutter Tuesday July 29 — “Black Tuesday” to the half a million or so active daily users of Facebook’s monster popular application known as Scrabulous. Office workers and computer nerds all over North America sat quivering and bewildered staring at a screen bearing the error message “Scrabulous is disabled for US […]
Double double profits
Buying breakfast for a pregnant woman at your local Tim Hortons seems like the polite, Canadian thing to do — unless of course, that pregnant woman happens to be homeless. Teresa Lee, an investment manager in Toronto, made the mistake of purchasing breakfast for such a woman and was promptly scolded by a Tim Hortons […]
