Rich me, poor me

Published 10:30 pm Friday, November 5, 2010

The unkindest poke: If you owe money to a debt collector, take care with what you post on Facebook. Some collection agencies are watching social networking sites to see if they can trip up debtors who claim they can’t make a payment but are posting pictures of pricey vacations or bragging about big-ticket purchases.

Then again, you might be able to throw off bill collectors by changing your profile picture to a shot of you dressed in a wooden barrel held up by suspenders.

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Bieber babble: Teen heartthrob and Supercuts model Justin Bieber is out promoting his new autobiography, “Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever,” during which he writes about his coming adult years: “I see myself being like, 30, like, married, like, probably.”

It’s going to, like, take the 16-year-old Bieber, like, about 14 years to, like, you know, propose, like, to a girl, you know. Probably.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1962, Richard Nixon, having lost the race for California governor, famously said: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Ten years later to the day, Nixon was re-elected to the presidency in a landslide.

It wasn’t the first or last time a campaign promise was broken.

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