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Cityfile: Ken Lewis Makes His Exit

Cityfile.com: The guide to New York’s most notable and influential individuals. Includes powerbrokers and tastemakers from media, business, finance, theater, restaurants, fashion, music, nightlife, politics, film, celebrity, TV, sports, … Continue reading

The Departure of Ken Lewis – Floyd Norris Blog – NYTimes.com

Faint praise for Ken Lewis as he (finally) decides to leave. Continue reading

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Ken Lewis is leaving Bank of America — and about time too. The board now has three months to find a successor; the new chairman, Walter Massey, has no real choice but to move “in a deliberate and expeditious manner” to find a … Continue reading

BofA Shareholders Make $1.5 Billion On Ken Lewis's Retirement

How are Bank of America (BAC) shareholders reacting to news that their fearless leader Ken Lewis is stepping down? Well, short of going out and polling them, the easiest answer is to look at the share price, which is up over 1% after … Continue reading

Glenn Beck Is Even Wrong in the Future

Yesterday, in furtherance of his indictment of Barack Obama as an Olympics-mongering gamewhore, Glenn Beck pointed out that the Olympics suck and Vancouver lost $1 billion when it hosted them. Next year.

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Glenn Beck Is Even Wrong in the Future

Mini Yankees Fans Go At It

Fighting at a baseball game: America's Pastime! (I hope the dad's video surfaces on YouTube soon, it looks like a better angle.) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Sarah Palin’s Ghostwriter Pals Around With Racists and Wackos

Lynn Vincent , the woman who is writing a book called Going Rogue “by” Sarah Palin , sure can pick her co-writers. She’s written books before with a general who kills “demons” for God and a guy who finds interracial dating “revolting.” As Charles Johnson—whose ongoing reformation from Muslim-hating wacko to right-wing apostate continues to puzzle and delight us—points out, Palin’s ghostwriter’s previous work includes Donkeycons , a thoughtful investigative look at the Democratic Party’s criminality that blows the lid off that “killer and traitor Aaron Burr.” Vincent’s co-writer on Donkeycons was Robert Stacy McCain , a former Washington Times editor who writes things like this : [T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion

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Sarah Palin’s Ghostwriter Pals Around With Racists and Wackos

Stephanie Pratt’s Overpaid Cameltoe Hangs with Audrina’s Overpaid Implants of the Day

The Hills may be my enemy because I hate the concept, the quality and the people who are on it and I am guilty of shitting on these idiots who sold their souls to be on the scripted reality show, but I really should be shitting on the people who watch the show, because these assholes are getting paid.

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Stephanie Pratt’s Overpaid Cameltoe Hangs with Audrina’s Overpaid Implants of the Day

Party City Seeks Thrilling Entries for Halloween Costume Design Contest (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Party City, America’s largest party specialty and Halloween retailer, invites creative consumers to submit designs for its “Dress To Thrill” Halloween costume design contest.

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Party City Seeks Thrilling Entries for Halloween Costume Design Contest (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

La Roux Think Lady Gaga Comparisons Are ‘Lazy’

‘We’ve taken a lot of influence from the ’80s, but hopefully we’ve made something new out of that,’ Elly Jackson says. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Tim Kash La Roux’s Elly Jackson Photo: Matt Jelonek/ Getty Images Although they’re quite popular in their native England, electropop group La Roux are still trying to make a name for themselves on this side of the pond.

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La Roux Think Lady Gaga Comparisons Are ‘Lazy’