Rants

The High Price of Awareness

Today, every popular female on facebook participated in something fantastic.  They cured breast cancer. No, I’m sorry.  I’m joking, they didn’t cure cancer.  Instead what they did – and this is not a joke – was post their bra color as their status in an effort to bring awareness to this disease. Now, I won’t [...]

Consumerism and Christmas

It is that time of year again when hopes, dreams, and wish lists become reality – or so we’d wish.  Very often we don’t, but that’s for a different time. Regardless of any argument anyone may ever make, prioritizing presents, gifts, or anything else over the true reason of Christmas – the birth of Jesus [...]

I Almost Got Coupon Scammed…

And here is how it happened: Around 6:20 She (who I will refer to as “Ana”, the first name on the 2009 hurricane name list) entered queue and proceeded to put her items on the conveyer. When it was her turn to be rung up, she preemptively apologized for being “my worst nightmare” – which [...]

Why I Skipped The Tea Parties

No, it has nothing to do with Maddow’s et al “tea bagging” joke. I definitely didn’t skip because I somehow support the ridiculous tax and spend plan of Obama – or worse – the don’t tax and but spend plans of the previous administrations. What I noticed, as the Tea Party movement grew, is that [...]

Blaming unions is not class warfare

Recently, a comment was made on my blog that placing partial blame on unions for the automotive sector’s collapse.  Eto, you couldn’t be further from the truth!  By agreeing to poorly contrived contracts the United Automotive Workers union not only priced themselves out of the market, but agreed to huge fiscal overheads placed on labor. [...]

Main Break at T-1156

Today around 6:00pm a water main broke at Target T-1156 in the electronics department (which is by far the best place for this to happen).  The overhead main was shut off manually after thoroughly dousing the radios, land line phones, and a good portion of the video game areas. Unfortunately, I did not have my [...]

What Gives, Advertisers?

Its no secret I have a lot of ads on my web site.  Lots and lots of ads pretty much everywhere. What may be a little bit of a surprise is how many visitors I get.  I’ve clocked some 55,000 page impressions since I started monetizing my website.  I’ve earned $60 not bad, but for [...]

How to Save GM

A simple bailout won’t save GM and the US taxpayers definitely won’t like saving the company either, I mean, MAYBE if the company made cars that DIDN’T SUCK they wouldn’t need a bailout! If GM wants to save themselves (even the biggest of bailouts won’t help.  When your business can’t turn a profit because you [...]