Warren Buffett, the world’s 3rd richest person according to Forbes magazine, received a 6% salary increase from his company, Berkshire Hathaway.
He now receives about $520,000 in salary and benefits. Most of his wealth comes from his investment in BH stock and other companies.
Buffett, who has often complained that the tax code here in the US [...]
With the economy still a long way off from sustained growth, one industry still rakes in cash:
Sex
Case in point: the domain URL sex.com is going on the auction block. Starting bid: $1 million bucks. What will the winner have to pay? Who knows, but this will happen – sex.com will garner the largest price for [...]
Lindsay Lohan claims that baby ‘Lindsay the milkaholic’ in the E*Trade commercial was a diss to her.
A $100 million dollar diss.
Lindsay (the elder, and I use that label loosely), please get over yourself. You ARE NOT Oprah, Cher, Madonna or even Roseanne.
You ARE an attention seeking train wreck. C’mon! Pull it together before you hit [...]
Director Kathryn Bigelow and her film ‘The Hurt Locker’ put the hurt on ex-hubby James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, taking 6 Oscars including Best Picture.
Some say this is a signal that Hollywood is shifting to the Right. Don’t bet the farm…a leopard does not change it’s spots.
Don’t pop the champagne yet, but the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial – originally ordered to civilian Federal court in New York City – may be headed back to the military tribunal (where it belongs).
We have already endured an administration that treated terrorism as if it was a criminal act. There is no reason that we [...]
A true American hero hung up his wings – at least for now.
Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger announced his retirement from Southwest Airlines after a 30 year career. No one who witnessed what Sully did that day last year in the Hudson River would argue that it was nothing short of a miracle.
Thanks to he and [...]
Last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the nerve to call the Tea Party movement ‘astroturfed’ and not grass roots.
A couple of weeks ago, Pelosi said that she and the Tea Partiers had a lot in common (huh??)
Now, along comes the “Coffee Party’ which the Lamestream Media thinks is grass roots but is actually a [...]
A majority of one?
The Endangered Media tell the story of Sen. Jim Bunning as if her were filibustering the $10 billion jobs bill.
In reality, he has lodged an objection – that Congress adheres to its recently reinstated Pay-Go rules that President Obama just signed.
They give one man too much power. They could have struck his [...]
The Japanese are quite the apologetic ones these days.
First, it was Toyota’s chief Akio Toyoda apologizing to customers, shareholders and even the US Congress. Now, Japan’s government is apologizing for calling a tsunami alert in the wake of the Chilean earthquake.
They must be taking Obama lessons.
While the President, Senators and Representatives are arguing the fate of the healthcare bill, there is was a new assisted suicide product:
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.
When you’re ready to end it all (social networking, that is), all you need is the Suicide Machine and with the click of a mouse, checks you out of the virtual [...]
