With all the musical chairs credit card companies are playing today, you may want to check out any change of policy letters they're sending out. For instance, if you're a former WAMU customer and JP Morgan Chase is your new debt master, you may have received a letter that states something like this in 1 point font:

“We may consider you in default ( Read more... )

I learned a new word today - Astroturfing. According to the article below it's "The name for mass corporate marketing disguised as grassroots efforts by individuals..." That's what their calling the "Tea Parties" that have supposedly been spontaneously popping up all over the country lately in protest against the Obama stimulus package. ( Read more... )

Got tagged on a Facebook meme and thought I would indulge rather than grade. Grading sucks.

Get to know me!

( 30 Things About Me - Meme )

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's over! It's OVER!!!!!!! The eight year of utter darkness and despair are OVER!

Raise a glass, folks! The long hard battle to oust these jokers has finally paid off. Now we actually have a chance to rebuild the country and clean up this mess.

There are a few things I haven't openly discussed that have transpired over the last few months. The biggest of those is that I quit my job as an academic advisor in August. I'm currently teaching online classes for two schools from the comfort of my own home and I couldn't be happier :) No morning commutes, no late nights and no more corporate ( Read more... )

There was a little blunder at the Wall Street Journal today:

McCain to attend debate, Web ad claims victory already

Before Republican presidential hopeful John McCain announced he would attend the presidential debate on Friday night in Mississippi, apparently an Internet advertisement slipped out onto the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page with ( Read more... )

The 700 billion bailout plan has a few issues with it, as one might imagine if they have any cognitive abilities at all. Hank Paulson, who in my opinion if the greatest traitor this nation has had the opportunity to continue working with, along with his side kick Ben Bernake, have failed to explain even vaguely how the bailout plan will help save ( Read more... )

Here's some food for thought as dissent begins in the wake of the Wall Street bailout...

From Democracy Now!: Army Unit Deploys in America in the Beginning of October

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ

MST3K: Interview Part 1
Experience is for Wusses

( Sarah Palin on Experience, National Security and God )

Taking a break from MSTing Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson (I keep sliding into angry banter rather than funny commentary), I thought I'd take a gander at something more depressing - the financial news ( Read more... )