Name your price

Haggling isn't just something your immigrant grandmother did that embarrassed you. More Americans are predisposed these days to ask for a lower price on stuff they buy.

The Buzz says this is an alarming trend. Before long, you won't be able to buy a dozen eggs without the clerk saying, “I'll have to talk to my sales manager about that.”


Irony Dept.: The chief spokesman for Boeing Works Here, a business group trying to keep the aerospace giant from heading out of state, also did P.R. for Clay Bennett while he was busy stealing the Sonics from Seattle.

Making amends, perhaps?


Jams kicked out: A church in Pennsylvania that conducts religious services consisting entirely of long “jam band” concerts has been told it can't hold four such events this summer.

A judge disallowed the events on grounds of rampant drug use and incredibly tedious 45-minute guitar noodles.


A two-fer: The new Microsoft Zune will be equipped with HD radio, in a historic combination of a device that nobody wants with technology nobody uses.