This week Americans began seeing the fruits of Congress’s gargantuan $2.2 trillion stimulus bill hitting their bank accounts, just in time to pay things like rent and electricity and barter with...
Apparently the last couple of months have been a busy time for credit card fraud! I say this as I look at replacements for nearly every card that I carry fanned out in front of me on my desk – credi...
…followed subsequently (in no particular order) by anger, confusion, anxiety, desperation, angst, loathing, outrage, panic, apathy, and depression until finally building into a veritable quagmire of...
Call me vamboozled, but I think I’ve been hoodwinked… I’m going to be honest with you when I say that there are few things that I genuinely dislike more than taking my car in for repair. Root ca...
What can I say? At least not all of us are being hit by this whole recession thingy… A couple of weeks ago I posted a list of gift-giving suggestions during these hard-lived times when the checkbook...
Come on – a smile? A childish grin?! Gimme something – it’s Christmastime, for crying out loud… And sadly, true to the phrase there actually has been an awful lot of crying out loud taking pla...
I’m stuck in a cruel loop that shows no signs of ending in the discernable future, kind of like Groundhog’s Day, except without the hilarious chemistry of Bill Murray to lead us through an otherwi...
…not that you’d get much for it, anyways, but hey, I suppose every little bit helps in these crazy, fossil-fuelin’ times. $3.75 a gallon, seriously?! There’s nothing quite like having to choos...
I’d like to take this moment to apologize to my fellow patrons of the United States Postal Service, as it seems that I’ve gone and angered the almighty stamp gods again…or something… And I don...