Andymatic

Month: April 2010

  • Indiana Grandmother and Grandson in Love

    So proud: Pearl Carter is positively glowing with joy. She has a handsome new boyfriend, is enjoying an active sex life after many years of celibacy and, amazingly, is preparing to become a mother again. But the retired grandmother isn’t carrying the baby herself. She and her young lover have spent a staggering $54,000 hiring a […]

  • Fraudonomics

    From Smirking Chimp: But what I’m saying is, no confidence means end of the confidence game. Thats what Lehman showed. Every single player in finance suddenly had to face the fundamental problem–this whole fucking economy is built on fraud and lies and garbage. So when Lehman collapsed, every single player panicked, going, If Lehman was […]

  • Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions for 2009

    Vitamin X (Xanax) and Lexapro for the win!! Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions for 2009 These are the top 25 psychiatric medications by number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed in 2009- according to IMS Health. I've also provided their 2005 ranking.

  • The Hypocrisy Trap

    Washington City Paper walks through several Republican-side hypocrisy traps: Bristol Palin: At some point, we forgot about why Bristol having sex was funny to begin with. The insane glee that we all derived from a teenage girl having sex before marriage became counter-intuitive—and downright creepy. We had crossed the hypocrisy bridge. We were no longer […]

  • Trent Reznor and Wife Mariqueen Maandig Are How to Destroy Angels

    Trent Reznor and Wife Mariqueen Maandig Are How to Destroy Angels Last year- Nine Inch Nails played their final show as a touring entity- and mastermind Trent Reznor married former West …

  • 93% of AAA Sub-Prime Mortgages Are Now Junk

    From Krugman: Of AAA-rated subprime-mortgage-backed securities issued in 2006, 93 percent — 93 percent! — have now been downgraded to junk status. via Berating the Rating Agencies

  • OK Measure Lets Doctors Lie to Women Considering Abortion

    NYTimes: A second measure passed into law on Tuesday prevents women who have had a disabled baby from suing a doctor for withholding information about birth defects while the child was in the womb. Opponents argue that the law will protect doctors who purposely mislead a woman to keep her from choosing an abortion. But the […]

  • Mississippi Disappears Gay Student from Yearbook

    Mississippi and Arizona should date: When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook.  Sturgis and her mother commissioned the Mississippi […]

  • U.S. Senator Says 'Shitty Deal' One Million Times

    Somebody send some strippers and pizza over to Levin's house. If he married? Send male strippers too. U.S. Senator Says 'Shitty Deal' One Million Times Goldman Sachs is spending today being harangued on Capital Hill. Senator Carl Levin read a Goldman email about the "shitty deal" it made- and felt compelled to repeat the phrase […]

  • The New Declinism

    From Alternet: It’s not hard to persuade people these days that they’re doing worse than they were 10 years ago. This is the problem with the new declinism. With no compelling vision of the apocalypse that doesn’t involve zombies, cyborgs, or outlaw bikers, we tend to miss something obvious: The problem isn’t that things are collapsing. […]