Dear Best Buy, Your Customer’s Time is Worth Something, Too…
I think it’s time that we as consumers started demanding more of the companies that we support with our business. Specifically, when they make a mistake t...
Tag: rants
Minifigure Frustrations, Series 11 Edition
This series of Lego Collectible Minifigs is really driving me nuts. I don’t know if it’s bad luck, bad mix at the factories, maybe there are people ...
Health Insurance is not like Your Cable Package!!!
…and yet it kind of is… Just follow me with this one for a minute, but first let’s watch this quick clip by North Carolina Congresswoman Renee...
What’s the role of business in society???
To provide goods and services to the general public? To allow people a means to contribute productively to society in exchange for the economic ability to suppo...
Reality vs. “Reality” TV
I’m not really sure why I still have “expectations” for reality TV shows. There aren’t really any that I watch regularly anymore –...
Shut Down Threats Over the Affordable Healthcare Act
I’ve written before about how I think that it’s absolutely crazy that we even entertain this idea of the government shutting down here in America, a...
When it rains, it rains REALLY REALLY hard…
So this has been a less than stellar week: Paid a bunch of money to finally get the HOA off my back by getting our front yard re-sodded. Discovered that the law...
Why retail is dying … for me, anyways…
Last night I went and did something that for quite a while I’ve lambasted other people for doing – I looked at a bunch of books at my local Barnes &...
“$250,000 is not rich … it’s actually close to poverty…”
Ok … so I couldn’t let this go without more than just the single line of commentary that I left on my last post because when I did just the tiniest ...
“Raise the minimum wage?!?!?! But then people would never LEAVE!!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwKsu4K7RLo A long time ago, I used to be among those with the opinion that it was ultimately pointless to raise the minimum wage...