Project Prevention is a US group that aims, according to their website, "to reduce the number of substance exposed births to zero." Three of its members stopped a woman in Scotland and offered her cash if she'd get sterilized.
How does one put a price on human suffering? One should probably ask Elin Nordegren for advice: She's demanding $750 million from Tiger Woods in divorce negotiations. That is some pricey misery.
How rich is the president? Thanks to financial disclosure forms we know the answer: Very rich. Obama is worth as much as $23 million. His dog is valued at $1,600. Biden is worth a sawbuck and a buffalo nickel.
We've all wanted to rob a free-standing ATM. It's just a fact. Well, a group of folks in NYC have actually gone and done it, going on an ATM-robbing spree. Costs two dollars every time, but it's worth it. [pic]
First the Florida governor's GOP friends ditched him for a Tea Party candidate. Then 20 of them sent Crist a letter saying that they're no longer friends, and they want their campaign donations back: "Those days are over." Harsh. [AP]
Buffett — who it is worth pointing out invested $5bn in Goldman at the height of the financial crisis — mounted what the WSJ call a "vigorous defense " of the company, saying he did not believe they had acted improperly.
Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's sons Mark and Andrew, and his brother Peter, will face charges according to the AP and WSJ, who say they're likely to be accused of tax fraud, provided they escape securities fraud allegations. [AP, WSJ]
Stephen Baldwin—the least Baldwin of all the Baldwins—is bankrupt and talentless. Luckily, he came up with a plan to make money that requires no talent or work: It is a website called restorestephenbaldwin.org. Let's make a donation!
Today we looked at the ridiculous new $100 bill, and since everyone loves discussing money, many comments were left. One in particular really boiled the matter down nicely.
Advance tickets for the May 27th opening of Sex and the City 2: A Wrinkle in Time are in high demand already, the Hollywood Reportertells us. Certain theaters saw more sales for this movie than for Kick-Ass.
If the befreckled freeway accident is, in fact, in such serious debt, we wonder what she possibly could have spent all the money on. Let's speculate, shall we?
New Jersey governor Chris Christie didn't release his tax return yesterday. He says he filed for an extension, but he didn't release the extension form. What is he hiding? (Probably a delicious foot-long hoagie.) [Via, Pic: AP]
...and that's just what she'll do! Suze Orman is like a real-life Scrooge McDuck, screeching to save while she obnoxiously cavorts in her heaps of gold. During a segment of Today on New York, Suze explained why she's the best.
Since leaving office last July, Sarah Palin has made at least $12 million. (According to ABC's The Blotter, so the real figure is probably more like a zillion dollars, if this Palin character even exists.) So there you have it.
The economy crashed. People tipped less. So workers began placing tip jars on every possible surface to remind us. Then people got annoyed with the jars and their witty slogans. What's next? We predict wrestling for ones. [NYP, pic via]
Glenn Beck's media empire netted him enough money last year to buy 79,000 blackboards. Too bad it's probably all tied up in gold! Where did most of that money come from, anyway? Publishing. That's right. Book learning. [Forbes]
It's Tuesday, which means there's another creditor going after nearly bankrupt photographer Annie Leibovitz. As we mentioned earlier, Brunswick Capital says Leibovitz refused to pay $800,000 for helping her land financing to keep her solvent. We have the complaint.
Supermarket owner Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton were friends. They flew around on Burkle's private jet and made each other lots and lots of money. Now they have broken up, and they are not friends. And Burkle owes Bill money!
While we were digging around the itemized disbursements of the Republican National Committee in search of lesbians, we found a couple trips marked "office supplies" that are both wonderful (and wasteful?) in very different ways.