Office space

We’ve got tips from experts on how to make your home office a more efficient place in which to polish your resume and apply for unemployment.

But if you really want to make your home work environment just like a real office, you’ll need to do a couple of things:

· Ask someone to sit five feet away from you and yammer nonstop about how hammered they got Saturday night.

· Achieve that employee-lunchroom vibe by allowing food to rot in your refrigerator.

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Run for the border: With the police hot on his tail, a suspected drug dealer stopped by a Taco Bell in Fort Wayne, Ind., for a burrito.

That ought to whet his appetite for jail food.

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It’s not OK to contact this poster: Under pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist says it will drop the “erotic services” category from its online classified ads. Authorities contend the ads were a front for prostitution.

Craigslist says it’s creating a new monitored “adult” section, but perhaps the “erotic services” providers will simply switch their ads to the “skill’d trade” category.

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