Drive Through Window

Drive Through Window

Despite what some people claim, credit cards are not inherently evil. But from humble beginnings in the 1960’s, the modern credit card industry has rapidly grown into a bloated behemoth that uses deceptive semi-legal bait-and-switch tactics to milk the entire...
Cafe-d’état

Cafe-d’état

Is there a Tuition Loan Bubble? I cringe when clueless politicians self-righteously announce how THEY “worked their way through college” at minimum wage jobs. Followed by: “Why don’t students just do that today? Why are they so lazy?”...
Your Fifteen Minutes Is Up

Your Fifteen Minutes Is Up

There’s a lot going on in the news over the past few days— the SCOTUS just dropped some pretty controversial rulings and a lot of people are pretty excited (or pissed off) about it— despite the fact that the Justices seriously passed the buck by refusing to...
Lean Mean Green Screen

Lean Mean Green Screen

Times are tough. Should we raise the Minimum Wage? Would it help or harm our economic recovery? For starters, anything that injects purchasing power into the Middle Class is a win for our economy. What damages our economy is when wealth is removed from the marketplace...
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

We don’t usually do gaming columns, but this one simply begged to be written, so here goes: To no one’s surprise, software giant Microsoft continues to rake in record profits while inviting its customers to fuck off. They had to scramble a few years back...