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Old cars are making a come back. Or maybe it's just because I drive old cars. Used to have really nice cars with really nice payments. Five hundred. Four hundred. Big thirty thousand dollar monsters t...

Topics: shortsale, hard times, writer cars, foreclosure, digitial writers, used cars, depression, middle class cars, publishers, literary, old cars, double dip recession

Beck Cons the New York Times

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

If you read the Glen Beck article in the New York Times Magazine you didn't learn much beyond that Glen Beck is one hell of a marketer. The rest of it was Glen Beck doing what he does best...selling! ...

Topics: new york times book review, beck, demigod, hard times, huey long, far right, conservative, glen beck.

President Obama should go to Foreclosure Court

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

You do get the feeling the President just doesn't get it. There is a Herbert Hoover quality to his pronouncements that the economy should be doing better with the stimulus packages his administration ...

Topics: hard times, depression, recesssion, hazelgrove rocket man, unemployment, foreclosure, hazelgrove, hoover

The Writer in Hard Times

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

These are hard times. On this we can agree. The writer in hard times is actually better equipped for the deprivation that comes when the coins stop clinking. Apologies to all writers who laugh to the ...

Topics: writers, hard times, liteary, hazelgrove, rocketman, novelist, books, artist, publishing, literature

A Grande Venti Double Shot Extra Dry Skim Whipped

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

So Starbucks is laying off people. The sky is truly falling. Maybe all our trouble began when we couldn't' even order a cup of coffee without tuning up our windpipes and speaking French. I have to adm...

Topics: starbucks, hard times, coffee, bubble, hemingway, view, rocket man, economy

Topic: hard times