Yesterday the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced some findings from its study of the problematic Chinese drywall, which 1,900 Florida homeowners have complained stinks and makes people sick. The commission told the Associated Press t...

There is a reason that I am not a pilot and the reason is this: I am afraid I would get bored, start messing around with my laptop and miss Minnesota. Unfortunately for Northwest Airlines, they don't hire people who utilize my rigorous program of...

A new report has been published that ranks the quality of health care for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It's not looking too swell for people who live in the South. One of the most disturbing findings from the report is that "...

Outgoing Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis looked like he had a pretty sweet deal, with the $53 million pension he's due to get when he walks. Hold on, says one union, in a letter to White House "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg: "The Americ...

While U.S. authorities are still trying to figure out whether letting the Godzilla and Megalon of ticket-selling join forces is a good thing, the U.K. has come to the rescue of concertgoers worldwide. The Competition Commission declared that the merg...

The Transportation Security Administration has discovered a major new threat, and is targeting it with all methods at its disposal. No, not terrorists. The agency is going after two bloggers, Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott, for exposing its whopper...

Hello there. The deadline for donating money to a wonderful non-profit such as Consumerist.com (for your 2009 taxes) is basically here. (Consumer Media LLC, a not-for-profit Delaware limited liability corporation, publishes The Consumerist.) That is...

David and his wife got stuck with one of HP's lemon laptops, and since the repairs just kept involving more faulty parts, they weren't solving the real problem. Here's how he eventually got a brand new laptop--different model--from HP. In June of...

Advertising is all about optimism, aspiring to a better tomorrow that's just a barcode scan away. So just because the economy is in the tank doesn't mean we stop selling dreams, it just means we have to pimp a littler harder, together. For America....

Matt owns his own cable modem, and it's worked fine so far with his $165-a-month Comcast Triple Play package. He wanted to check into how he could reduce that ridiculous $165/mo burden, so he chatted online with someone from Comcast to see what his...