To be a competent human being in the 21st century you have to be very wary of how you consume information. And this is so for one simple reason: journalism today is crap. Case in point. A few days ago, I was meandering around Yahoo Finance and I came across an article with the following …
The biggest screwer of poor Americans is poor Americans themselves. Poor Americans vice too much, television too much, and camouflage too much (i.e., they try to look rich). But, sadly, self-sabotage isn’t the only obstacle poor Americans have to contend with. Poor Americans also have to contend with our vaunted elites. Yep, our all-knowing, all-caring …
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Are the poor and working-class human shields for the FIRE community? That’s a seemingly idiotic question to be asking, but hear me out. I pay quarterly estimated taxes on our pension and dividend income. I also pay sales and property taxes. Just how much I’ll be paying for these various taxes in 2020 is as …
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Crazy week. Mrs. Groovy signed us up for fostering rescue animals and we received our first client on Tuesday. I don’t know exactly what mix Mitzi is, but she’s a pip. She’s currently in heat and discharging an unnerving amount of blood. She also has a skin issue that requires bathing and medication. And did …
Hallelujah! The rebar scaffolding for the bison is finally complete. Now it’s just a matter of covering the beast with scrap metal. When I told my welding instructor about my plans to weld a life-sized bison out of scrap metal, he predicted it would take me at least a year. And I thought he was …