Category Archives: Money

Who are the 99 percent?

“I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it.” It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was it their press strategy, which largely consisted of tweeting journalists to cover a small protest that couldn’t say what, exactly, it hoped to [...]

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To all Occupy Wall Street participants, here is the key to your victory… (for serious)

Guys, listen. Here’s the deal. I love you guys with every shred of my hard-left leaning heart. But I think you might be doing something wrong. Here is one thing that can help you. Tomorrow, wear a polo and khakis Seriously. polos and khakis. Every time you guys DO finally get some fucking press, it’s [...]

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When did I turn into a woman?

Two things to know. 1) I became unemployed in late April of this year. 2) I was so not a make-up, nail polish, handbags, jewelry kind of girl. Being unemployed, I’m looking for ways to be employed, at least somewhat. As miserable as I was at my last job, I know I wanted to try [...]

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Self-Employed!

My (now former) place of employment finally did me a solid favor: they fired my ass! I suppose I shouldn’t go into too much detail. In a nutshell: they’d been putting me under an insane amount of stress for a couple years now. Last week my employer went out of her way to make sure [...]

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Tea partiers are whiny bitches.

I was going to talk more about this, but I lost steam. Basically, the Tea Partiers’ (I still like “tea-baggers” better!) plight is moot. They have excess while there are way more people who have not enough. Therefore, I will have no sympathy for the tea partiers, because there are people more deserving of my [...]

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