flickr.com/photos/houseofcardsHartmann's housing gamble lost millions for investors.​Doug Hartmann got the maximum sentence possible yesterday when a federal judge ordered him to serve two years in prison and pay $34 million in restitution to some 114 victims. Earlier this decade, Hartmann was one of the most free-spending developers in town -- buying up hundreds of properties (mostly in south St. Louis) that he told investors he planned to rehab and sell for substantial profits. But for many
​We didn't know what this man was doing when we posted his picture earlier this week. Thanks, then, to reader Doug Shachte who wrote to inform us of a compound-verb that had not been in our vocabulary: SPRAYFART! A post on Frontyard Feature's censored version of The Big Lebowski, elicited this comment from KBO: Why would they even choose this movie if they needed something PG-13?
Fuckin' travesty, man. This isn't 'Nam, Frontyard Features. There are
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