I came across this meme on social media today, and it brought back a whole slew of nineties restaurants I hated as a kid. So I’ll name several: Bonanza Most locations have closed but it appears a few may still be around, although some may be called “Ponderosa” or “Home Style Dining.” Supposedly the chain […]
Read more "Restaurants from the 90s That Have Gone the Way of Photomat, and Why I Don’t Miss Them"How I File My Tax Return So I’m trying to do my taxes, and TurboTax gives me this tax questionnaire. Among the list of tax questions 2017, here are some of the interesting ones…and my snarky answers that I can’t give the IRS because there’s no place on the fucking form to insert sarcasm. (But […]
Read more "How to File Your Taxes With Snark"How to Get a Yoga Body In the past I’ve written a lot about ads I encounter for products I view to be a ripoff. One was for the frozen yogurt robot—call now to invest in one because all the best locations are going fast! (Strangely, neither I nor any of my readers have ever […]
Read more "Can You Really Have the Perfect Yoga Body With This Overpriced Contraption?"I remember one Halloween when I was 7 or 8, walking around the mall. My parents always took me to the stupid mall because they thought I’d get kidnapped walking around a street. Only a handful of stores had anything good. So I come up on this vitamin store and say “Trick or treat.” The […]
Read more "Vitamin Pills are NOT Treats and Other Times I Called Bullshit on Halloween"Wondering how to succeed as a Millennial? First of all, welcome to Millennialhood, you lazy, unmotivated slug. Don’t take offense, I’m also a lazy, unmotivated Millennial. At least, that’s what I hear twenty times a day, from Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Anyway, I’m going to look up from my phone screen just long enough […]
Read more "Lazy Millennial Gives Advice on How to Make Ends Meet"Author’s note: Recently singer Kid Rock announced he was running for Congress, and actor/wrestler The Rock said he was going to run for president in 2020. With so many celebrities running for office, I started wondering what an all-celebrity, no-politician election cycle would look like in the not-so-distant future. The Rock, Kid Rock, Chris Rock, […]
Read more "How an All-Celebrity Election Season Transforms The Oscars"I’m going to start by telling you my earliest memory of seeing a politician lie. I don’t remember how old I was, but I was pretty little, maybe three or four. I didn’t know who the president was or what that title meant or what taxes were or why I should care about any of […]
Read more "This is Why the First Amendment is More Important Now Than Ever"I know you have never been to the brink of financial ruin because of a car repair.
Read more "20 Things I Already Know About You When You Say, “I Don’t Care About Money”"Are You a Cheapskate? I’ll be honest, I’m a tightwad. Mostly this is a necessity due to my always being broke. It may also be partly genetic. When I was a kid, I remember my dad getting into a fight with the owner of the laundromat over a quarter. Yes, a quarter. The laundromat guy […]
Read more "How Much of a Cheapskate Are You?"As a follow-up to last week’s post about the ads I keep hearing for some real estate investing scam, I thought I’d bring you another can’t-miss-if-you-like-burning-money opportunity: The frozen yogurt robot franchise. If you still have any money after investing in “the PERFECT market for my real estate investing plan!” (and every market is the […]
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