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Lil’ Markie Sings!

Lil' Markie (aka Mark Fox) shows off his multiple personalities at a church in the 80's. Mark has recorded albums as “Lil' Markie”, his 5 year old alter-ego. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

14 Things The Recession Is Helping Get Rid Of

The recession isn't so bad when you think about in terms of what we're getting rid of. I like to think of it as a form of Spring cleaning. Here are 14 things that are hopefully going to be by the end of this recession

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14 Things The Recession Is Helping Get Rid Of

US budget deficit at $1 trillion

” The US budget deficit has moved above $1 trillion (£616bn) for the first time – with three months of the financial year remaining, official data show. The government stepped up spending to counter the recession,…

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US budget deficit at $1 trillion

Oldest Mother in the world.If she succeeds The 7th IVF treatment.

At the age of 72, she is old enough to know better. But it seems Jenny Brown cannot be deflected from her determination to give birth. Miss Brown, who has never had a long-term relationship, has already spent…

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California poised to shut gates on 80% of the States great outdoors as parks struggle with budgets

It is hard to envisage a no-entry sign tagged to a towering redwood tree. But the recession – writ on an epic scale in California’s proposal to close 220 state parks – is forcing the American public to confront the closure of the great outdoors

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California poised to shut gates on 80% of the States great outdoors as parks struggle with budgets

NY Times Scribe Graphically Exposes Affair-Having Friend

So earlier we were innocently reading the Sunday New York Times , happily taking in your typical ” Times writer has lunch with affair-having friend” Magazine article, when things got a little, uh, disgusting. The writer of the article in question is the Sarah Vowell and blog commenter-hating Virginia Heffernan, she of the Sunday Magazine ” The Medium ” column.

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Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis

Oh pity the poor denizens of Williamsburg. The erosion of hipster trust funds is leading their greasy little utopia to slowly devolve into some sort of Mad Max-esque, post-apocalyptic real estate wasteland, just like Miami! So says New York Magazine . Anyone who’s walked around Williamsburg lately can see the painful signs of a busted bubble.

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Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis