Try this the next time you’re behind on your bills: Send the bank an IOU. Something like this: “Sorry, but I’m out of dough. But I’ll do my best to pay you back some time in the really near future.” How do you think that would go over? Don’t laugh, …

Here’s the one thing that must be the lead story of the day. McDonald’s has announced an 80 percent rise in profits last year compared to 2007. They made $4.3 billion in profit last year, compared with $2.3 billion the year earlier. Why? The answer is: the economy. People can’t …

HANGZHOU, China – Once a country of bicycles, China is fast becoming a nation of cars. Every day some 1,500 newly registered vehicles hit Beijing’s already congested streets — more than 500,000 a year in that city alone. The result is a gridlock that makes getting anywhere an undertaking, and …

I can’t believe it took more than two years to charge the physicians involved in the case of Anna Nicole Smith’s death. It really shocks me that it took so long for these investigators to connect the dots. Even from the preliminary data, it is evident that prescription medication had …

Source: Bethenny Frankel’s Engagement Fake, Could Be Sued? Bethenny Frankel’s professional life couldn’t be better with reports she has just landed her own spin-off reality show “The Skinny & the City” to apparently debut this fall (Bravo declined to comment), and personally things are looking pretty positive too with news …

HELMAND PROVICE, Afghanistan – It’s the middle of the night at the east corner guard post of Fiddler’s Green, a Marine fire base in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, along the border with Pakistan. Corporal Ryan Joseph Bernal is on perimeter security duty. Armed with an M-4, night vision binoculars and an …

Name a food equally loved by kids and adults, ubiquitous at both office parties and children’s birthday celebrations, and hasn’t yet been banned from school cafeterias. The answer is easy: Pizza. It is America’s go-to grub for nearly every occasion; the utility-player of our fast-food culture, and one of the …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Consolation Prize After coming in second Sunday in the Miss USA pageant, Miss California Carrie Prejean continues to grab headlines. Prejean answered a question on gay marriage by saying, “I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man …

So in Eminem’s new video, he’s in the sack with a Sarah Palin clone when he breaks wind. How edgy. How in your face. Way to speak truth to power — even if it’s from your ass. But what do you expect from a white, balding rapper about to hit …

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