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Dead Man Arrested after 32 Years Running from the Law

Arthur Gerald JonesArthur Gerald Jones was a Chicago commodities broker living in the tony northern suburb of Highland Park. He had a 17-year marriage, three children, and he held a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade. On May 11, 1979, he was reported missing from his home.

According to an affidavit filed in Nevada, Jones’ wife told investigators that about six months before he disappeared, he lost his job at the board of trade as a commodities trader and had to sell off his seat to pay off thousands of dollars in gambling debts. She said he also forged her name on a second mortgage application as he tried to get more cash to pay off his debts, according to the affidavit.

Jones’ wife last saw him on May 11, 1979. She told a Tribune reporter in 1979 that her husband “was not himself” in the months before he disappeared and particularly “jittery” after the murder of his friend and fellow trader Carl Gaimari. Continue reading →

Life Lessons on Being Laid Off

I started my career on July 1, 1995, with a big multinational company. On July 1, 2009, I was given the old heave-ho. What had started out as a very promising upward trajectory landed with a thud, and the reason I was being shown the door had nothing to do with me or how well I did my work.

The circumstances of my job’s demise were simple: I was only working on one account, and that customer had been sold to a company that in-sourced their IT functions. While my group was in the process of transitioning our work to our customer’s new owner, my employer was in the process of laying off tens of thousands of Americans and shipping their jobs to various Asian countries. Even though my work record had been exemplary, and I had received the highest possible rating on my annual review more than once, there was no room at the inn for me. I tried to find a new position with the company starting in mid 2008 up until my last day, but there were none to be had. Continue reading →

The Glee Project: Put Them Out Of Their Misery

The final episode of this highly dysfunctional reality/competition singstravaganza on Oxygen aired on August 21. It was a dark and possibly stormy evening, depending on where you were at the time. Because consistency is important, the show runners did not deviate from the set-in-stone format of the show. Mini Challenge, Let’s Make A Video, Sing For Your Life, Time To Go. Beware, there are spoilers inside! Continue reading →

Project Runway Season 9: The Devil Wears Nina

So, how many souls have you consumed today?

This, this, this, this, this, this is the search for the next big fashion designer. At least, it’s the fourth episode of this season. Four episodes and we still have no explanation why the judges are in the show opener and not the contestants. As always, there’s spoilers inside, so click at your own risk! Continue reading →

And a Puppy for You and Free Ice Cream for Everyone!

The Chicago Tribune reports that Michele Bachmann, she who has the completely hetero husband, is guaranteeing TWO DOLLARS A GALLON GASOLINEif she is elected.

Just so you can see the lunacy, here’s the direct quote: “Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,” Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. “That will happen.”

When reached for comment, Suze Orman quipped, “honey, I will be a patient in her husband’s clinic before gas goes down to two dollars a gallon again.” No, Suze didn’t really say that. But she should.

Seriously, her idea is to remove any restrictions on drilling and roll back federal regulations on the shale gas industry. OK, while she delivers the killing blow to the environment, what she doesn’t understand is that her actions would have little impact on gas and oil prices. Continue reading →

In a World Where Humans Are Remote Controlled

You know what? There’s no point in hiding the spoilers under a cut, because this movie deserves to be spoiled. Anyway, in case you haven’t seen this, click at ya own risk.

Yes, friends and neighbors, I saw Gamer, the Gerard Butler vehicle from 2009 that was all science fictiony and go-fast-and-blow-up-goodness in the trailer, and then a whole lot of “I wonder how many of these actors needed to make a mortgage payment?” in the actual viewing of the movie.

The premise is simple. In the near future, a crazy technology genius played by Dexter from HBO land invents some kind of nano technology that is injected into people, and it clones their brain cells and replaces them, with the twist that the new brain cells can send and receive information over an IP network. Continue reading →

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide

Didja ever have some people exit your life, and you ended up wondering about them years later? People who don’t leave a huge digital footprint on myspace and linkedin and orkut and facebook, and yet you get curious about what the hey happened to them?

I had some friends two houses down when I was a little kidling, and I really loved spending time with them. Their parents had really tricked out their house, and what they managed to do with seventies technology was pretty impressive to a first-grade me. Their mom would feed us white bread, yellow mustard and baloney sandwiches for lunch, something that was verboten in my house – my mom was perpetually on a diet and fed us roasted turkey deli meat on dry high-fiber bread that had wood cellulose in it. Sawdust bread. Yeah. Continue reading →

Project Runway Season 9 Recap: Girls On Stilts

http://youtu.be/gudEttJlw3s

Wasn’t it just a moment ago that Bryce was spared and Non-Gay Mormon Josh was sent packing? It seems like no time has passed at all and yet once again, Project Runway appears in homes, apartments, and gay bars across the land.

Ready to titillate, shock and confuse you are Heidi “Think Big, Really Big” Klum, Nina “It’s Terrible” Garcia, and Michael “Drama Doesn’t Mean Tacky” Kors. As always, there are spoilers inside, so click at your own peril. Continue reading →