Posts tagged as Sad Stories
Today's a Good Day to Delete Your Gchat archives
"There was his claim that he hated high school, and there were three files on his computer, written in July and early September, whose contents are unknown but whose file names are Gah.docx, sorry.docx, and Why is everything so painful.docx." READ MORE
Jersey Mayhem: High School Music Teacher Caught Pawning Instruments
As you would have been reminded by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band had you been listening to the radio 25 years ago, things are tough all over. And as Bruce Springsteen might have reminded John Cafferty, stop ripping me off, you Rhode Island poseur, things are tougher in New Jersey than they are anywhere else. Sad evidence of that today, with word that Toms River High School North music teacher Albert Crosta was arrested Monday after selling $1,300 worth of school-property musical instruments to a second hand shop. Clarinets, a violin, French horn and cymbals, everything. READ MORE
Sady Doyle on the Tragedy of Laura Bush's Selflessness
"But abnegating her own beliefs in order to stand by her man-even as he did things that affected innumerable lives, things she apparently knew to be wrong-was exactly 'traditional,' and the worst kind of tradition. The really troubling thing is how much people liked it: How a woman publicly enacting lack of engagement, lack of opinion, lack of self, was met with such sky-high approval ratings and such wide applause." READ MORE
New Jersey Sucker Birthrate Probably Double The National Average
A woman named Karen Brown, of Randolph, New Jersey, is suing her former psychic counselor for fraud, claiming the storefront clairvoyant, Paula Lee, took her for $160,000. As the Asbury Park Press reports: "Brown became convinced that Lee 'had genuine psychic abilities, powers and the ability to influence future events,' the suit said. She claimed she could communicate with departed souls and convinced Brown she was under a curse and 'dark forces were obstructing her efforts to find happiness,' the suit said." While it's difficult to totally excuse the victim in such a case, Ms. Lee seems like a particularly predatory fake-psychic. Besides depression and marital problems, Brown was suffering from cancer. And Lee allegedly told her she would die without her help. That's just not nice.
The Last of the Hot Summer Town Halls: How We've All Been Fooled By The Health Care Debate
Abnormally interesting town hall meetings have caused some in Congress to make their August events invitation-only. This tactic, a favorite of the Bush administration, has been bemoaned by the right as cowardice. Senator Byron Dorgan, who puts the D in the Red State of ND, went ahead and held meetings anyway. I went to a few to see what the fuss was all about. (Hint: It's not about health care.) READ MORE
Who Knew Drea De Matteo Was A Bitch?
Obviously everyone everywhere is turned inside out by this week's Us story on Lindsay Lohan. Particularly because-wait, what? "'Everyone's turned on me,' says the actress. She tells the magazine that the night of the Chateau showdown, Nicole Richie walked by her and said 'Uck,' and Drea De Matteo said, 'Come at me, bitch.'" Okay, for one thing, Drea De Matteo 1) doesn't work any more and 2) has like a 15-month-old baby, and what is she doing out? Oh and third of all: "Joey"? What the hell?
