I just died a little

This is... is there a word for 'beyond revolting'? Because this might just be it. Someone (who's going to be paying off this karmic debt for the next few turns of the Wheel) has decided to make a buck off of the tragedy of Caylee Anthony's death. Sick. Just sick.

PSA for anyone with a CitiBank credit card

Out of the, you know, two people who read this damned thing. via Consumerist:

Citigroup's "account sweeping program" automatically removed positive balances from customers' credit card accounts, Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. said. For instance, if a customer double-paid a bill by mistake or refunded a purchase for credit, that positive balance was then taken from the customer without notification, Brown said.

In the words of a Citibank executive, “Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision.” The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because it would reduce the executive bonus pool.

Step back and read that second paragraph again. Some executive justified stealing because it would REDUCE HIS FUCKING BONUS!!!!!! I read this story and was so totally gobsmacked I almost fell out of my chair. Where the hell were the accountants? And the worst thing about it is, as someone pointed out the comments on Consumerist, the execs stole, lined their own pocket with bonuses, and the refunds and fines are coming out of the company coffers. People who had nothing to do with this might lose their jobs or their life savings if the stock tanks.

Sometimes I just want to give up and not give a shit anymore. Then I read about people like these, who drove across the country to rescue dogs they'd never met and knew nothing about, and I think there might be hope for humanity yet. As Jimmy Tock said in Life Expectancy, "Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake."

Fleas my cats have

How the hell they got fleas is beyond me, but the damn things must be screwing like bunnies AND immune to treatments, because we ended up having to give Mika a bath last night.

Read that last sentence again. I'm just glad she's front declawed and we have a deep tub, otherwise I'd have stitches today.

Putin's Lost it

He's running for the Batshitcrazymobile as I type. He's now claiming that the US orchestrated the late unpleasantness between Russia and Georgia. Dude, we can't organize a fuckup in a whorehouse here in the US (see: Katrina, Rita, etc), much less half a world away!

Oh, gag. Just... gag.

I'm all for the entrepreneurial spirit and everything, but this is just gross. There's a site you can go to to post pictures and beg rich men for a boob job. I shit you not.

http://myfreeimplants.com/

Here's a thought - why don't you spend your time and energy doing something useful instead of begging for money?