Boomerang Kids, You Can’t Go Home Again


boomerang term for kids who move back in with their parents

The Los Angeles Times ran a story yesterday wherein it cited a Pew Research Center study that showed a good number of twenty and thirty-somethings – almost 30% surveyed between ages 25-34 – had returned home at some point during this bleak economic climate to live with their parents.  Furthermore, these brave, brave boomerang kids were [...]

Commercials May Be the Most Accurate Barometer of the Economic “Recovery”


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Two dollar bills for ten dollars. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Or drink til I forget. More »

Weighing in on ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’


I’ve just spent the last hour and a half catching the first two episode of the six-part series Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and, boy, am I depressed.
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Miss Homeless Belgium, In Which the Losers Remain Homeless


The recent Miss Plastic Hungary pageant that required that its contestants have had extensive plastic surgery threw me for a bit of a loop, because it just seems strange to publicly reward women for disliking their own physical appearance. Oh, wait. We do that all the time. North America came up with The Swan, which [...]

Figure Skater Johnny Weir Will Hold Off on Resorting to Porn for a While


We all know that the economy is in the shitter but I don’t know if most of us realize how much it is effecting professional sports. The Houston WNBA team had to shut down completely, The NFL, MLB and NBA have all had layoffs. So think about the impact this has on poor figure skaters. [...]