Pfizer has announced it will make available Viagra and 69 other commonly prescribed drugs to those who have lost their jobs in 2009.

It seems like an excellent idea to me. So excellent that it's surprising they actually thought of it.

President Obama rocks. First, I started getting $100 more per month for my unemployment insurance payments. Now, just today, I have been informed that my former employer now has to pay 65% of my premium, for the next 9 months. 65%. Since my payments have been $532, that's a truly massive relief.

Yours, for $28:


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I've heard of a couple businesses that are doing well or even better in the recession. The first one I heard of was fast food, specifically McDonald's, because first, people don't feel they have to curtail previous spending habits as much, since it's so inexpensive, and second, people are often reaching for fast food as a cheaper alternative to a ( Read more... )

I'm torn about this whole bonus craze. I was distracted by other things, so I admit that when the fury started, I sort of accepted that the bonuses were an outrage that should probably be blocked if possible. It was a wee blip on my radar. Probably part of why I ignored it was that stuff that Joe the Plumber gets his knickers knotted up over ( Read more... )

It was a bit sad to me to see someone's used Hopes & Dreams jar offered at Salvation Army for the exorbitant amount (exorbitant for Salv. Army - this one is quite pricey) of $3.99.


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Much to L's occasional chagrin, I am actually a subscriber to the "It will work out because it has to," school of thought. I realize that this line of thinking has deep roots in denialism, but, well, I'm still alive, and I'm not alone, and my family is still alive, so I guess I haven't been too wrong ( Read more... )

I have decided I want an icon for when I'm talking about, as Jon Stewart would put it, the Clusterfuck to the Poorhouse. I've been looking at Great Depression images - WPA posters, breadlines, etc, and I'm not finding the right thing to sum up the Depression experience in a 1" square image. The breadlines are awesome, but you need a good enough ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that with a combination of sales, coupons, and rebates, I just made it so that Rite-Aid is going to pay me $22 for accepting a bag of stuff I needed. I rule.

I only got bitten by Felix once yesterday, on the scalp. (See here if that statement confuses you.) This is admittedly the first time he's gotten the scalp badly enough to ( Read more... )