Day: November 3, 2010

Take it from Snee: You’re about to get dumped

Look, I don’t know how to break this to you, but … well, you’re about to get dumped.

Or you’re about to dump somebody. Either way, you are about to be alone, so very alone soon.

How could I possibly know that? Because of Facebook.

David McCandless, a London designer, just released a graph of status updates containing the phrases “break up” or “broken up.” He discovered two peak periods in which the phrases were used: Spring Break and the two weeks before Christmas.

Here’s my interpretation of his data. Continue reading Take it from Snee: You’re about to get dumped

Heck of a job, Dubya

Former President George W. Bush just responded to Kanye West’s infamous 2005 accusation that “Bush doesn’t care about black people” in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Bush took it right to Kanye, via the “Today” show, five years later, saying that he “didn’t appreciate it.”

West’s original statement criticized Bush’s slow response time.

Miss him, yet?

(You can tell we do.)

Clark still can’t save you now

When you’re super rich, 500,000 dollars is not a whole lot of money.

When you’re rich, 500,000 dollars isn’t that much money.

When you’re a working stiff, 500,000 dollars is a lot of money.

When you’re not a working stiff because you haven’t had a job in some time AND you’ve been arrested for illegally squatting in property AND you’re not exactly rolling in the money, 500,000 is a whole bunch of money that maybe you shouldn’t be skimping.

So skipping your court date? Maybe not the best idea.

So, how ’bout those mid-term elections?

Happy Day After Election Day. Don’t worry, we’re not going to let you down, we brought the topical stuff for you today. We stayed up all night writing our best stuff about what happened last night. OK, I’m kidding. We may or may not have anything on the election for you, but here’s a story about Halloween!

A couple of dentists in Pennsylvania are tired of seeing kids rot their teeth with candy on Halloween, so they’re doing something about it. They are proposing to buy back candy from trick-or-treaters so they don’t get cavities. Good idea guys, pay the children not to eat candy. You’re putting yourselves out of business while encouraging kids to do take care of themselves all for the almighty dollar. Socialism!

How’s that for hard-hitting political analysis?