Taxing the wallet
January 4, 2013Overcast, and for an early January morning, a bit on the warm side, considering this is supposed to be winter. So much for the weather! Yesterday was payday at the liquor store I manage, and…
Category Archives: Finance
Life Defaulted
September 9, 2012One regret I’ve had (among a whopper list) is that I’ve never been a homeowner, though, for many years I was eligible for a VA loan via the GI Bill. Nowadays owning a home can…
Gilded Blowout
July 5, 2012In this the day after our Independence Day, the world looks about the same from up here on California’s northern coast, although the real word of the day yesterday (via Urban Dictionary) was “Freedom Fondle”…
College Degree — ‘An Empty Cliff’
April 23, 2012Last week, a regular customer and I got into a short discussion during check-out on the subject of college debt — she told me she was having trouble paying off just $4,000 in loan obligations.…
Word
April 17, 2012“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.” — George…
Turd Privilege
February 28, 2012Wealth can indeed make one an asshole. A new study indicates when a person has more, he will take more: Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic…
Weather What?
February 16, 2012Old age don’t excuse. Seagrass that spans 2,000 miles of the Mediterranean Sea, considered the earth’s oldest living thing and supports “marine ecosystems that rank among the most valuable on earth in terms of biodiversity…
Equal Prejudice
February 7, 2012Last week, when Mitt Romney blubbered, “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” he later waddled back, claiming he “mispoke.” In reality, the Mitt told the truth — if one has money, who gives a…
Bitch the Rich — Continued
January 12, 2012(Illustration found here). The Great American Dream has always been just that, a dream — a vapor made solid and real by fantasy fueled by a desire to be well-to-do, or rich. Historian James Truslow…
Bitch the Rich
January 11, 2012No big deal — Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire primary and the GOP whore-wagon grinds on to South Carolina, where the pack gathers for a nit-picking contest there on Jan. 21. The only applaudable…