I rarely bitch about videogames online. I'm not a forum troll, nor even a forum junkie, nor yet a forum dweller...truth be told, I have neither read nor commented on any videogame forum, that I recall. Maybe I once followed a link because I was stuck on something or other, and unwittingly was led to a forum, and possibly I either gleaned some ( Read more... )

Normally, I don't put a lot of stock in New York Times op-eds, since they tend to be cynical, alarmist, and left-wingist, along with other isms that degrade their meaning just as much as those ( Read more... )

The budget tells one story, and the public propaganda another.

I'll be blunt: it's stupid to triple the operational commitments of the armed forces, while still spending the entire budget on preparation for future war. We are currently at war. Preparing to fight a "future" war with the money we have, and relying on "supplemental" spending to pay ( Read more... )

Except maybe, should I have any, my own.

But this lady has a great point. Administrators, and state legislators for that matter, while hardly parasitic fields, should not be rewarded more rapidly than teachers.

No one should ( Read more... )

The Puget Sound Energy webpage, which insists that I have registered with a different username and password each time I attempt to log in...then when I click to overwrite with the "new" username and password (actually, still the same ones saved on my computer) does not find any customer information for my name and account number.

How in all the ( Read more... )

I knew energy bills were going to be a "bit more" in the winter time.

Two hundred dollars more I didn't expect.

And I was making such great progress on my debts, too.

But apparently, Chase in all their wisdom believes they need to "hold" my payments for a week. Here's a clue, people: it's an electronic withdrawal. There is no check to "hold." And it cleared five days ago, so holding it "until it clears" isn't an excuse either ( Read more... )

The budget screams, "We have no agenda of protection other than our own jobs! Our future matters more to us than yours!"

More than that, New Orleans has known for decades that a major natural disaster (upriver flood, hurricane, tsunami) would almost certainly breach the levees, and would with absolute certainty overwhelm them with floodwater, and ( Read more... )

It's now been two months since I've made a payment to my Mastercard. Not for lack of trying, but each time I've frickin' tried, it's bounced, and not because I shouldn't have had money in my account, but because I didn't.Lemme 'splain, Rucy, by providing the latest example ( Read more... )

I finally get my pay back, and more importantly, I can finally pay my creditors instead of eating at Taco Hell on my credit card because I don't have forty bucks to get to the grocery store.