Tag Archives: Valentines Day

Mexican Billionaire Drug Kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman Named Chicago's Public Enemy No.1

By Dolia Estevez, Contributor

The world’s most powerful drug trafficker, Mexican billionaire Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, was designated  by The Chicago Crime Commission and the DEA as Chicago’s Public Enemy #1,  a title held by Al Capone at the height of Prohibition in the 1930s.  In making the announcement on Valentines’ Day, Art Bilek, the commission’s executive vice president, said that  “What Al Capone was to beer and whiskey, Guzman is to narcotics.”  Guzman deserved the designation for the “viciousness, the evil and the power of this man.” …read more
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Looking For Your Missing 1800Flowers Valentine's Day Delivery? Use Twitter, Not The Phone, Study Says

By Dan Bigman, Forbes Staff

If you’re like me and you didn’t get the flowers you ordered for your wife on Valentines Day, and then you felt like a complete idiot for wasting a hunk of your day or so on the phone with no result, that’s because you are an idiot. If you want customer service these days, use Twitter. Period. …read more
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Valentine's Day For Cynics

By Liza Donnelly, Contributor

Many people say they don’t like Valentines Day. I have been known to say that. The mindless commercialism, the gender stereotyping, the endless lists of how to do this or that on Valentine’s Day, stories on the news about cute marriage proposals. Stuffed animals, red and pink cards with glitter, chocolate (well, that’s not so bad),  boxer shorts with hearts on them….I could go on. …read more
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