This feature could just as easily be on Now What? but today I want to cover Underwater Degrees. Most of you may have heard the term “Underwater Mortgage” used to describe houses that are in more mortgage debt than they will ever be worth. I’ve coined the phrase Underwater Degrees to refer to degrees that…
Category: Wednesday
The Fast Food Critic: I have a near death experience with the 5 Dollar Foot Long
Today’s review was supposed to be about how foods you think of as healthy can be deceptive, because Subway has centered their entire brand around the idea that lard asses can lose weight by eating food measured in feet. I deliberately picked what might be the unhealthiest sub on their menu to review, The Chicken…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Network Connectivity Problems, What to do When You Don’t Know Anyone Useful
Last week we talked about how brutal the job market can be without experience. This week we should talk about how brutal it can be if you don’t know anyone. Generation Z or Generation Next or Generation Wireless or whatever the hell our generation of socially retarded, 30 year old brats surfing facebook 4 hours…
The Fast Food Critic: Today’s Review is The McRib
If there is such a thing as snooty fast food, it would be the McRib. The legendarily elusive McDonald’s sandwich is never available in all stores nationwide, it is never available at a single store year round, and pops up across the country at random stores with no rhyme, reason, or release pattern. It doesn’t…
Working Class Economist: If a Bank Doesn’t Know Your Name, Bank Somewhere Else
Last week I encouraged people to ditch their credit card for anything but the most extreme of situations—and there aren’t many—in order to avoid the cancer sweeping the nation: credit card debt. This week I’m asking you to ditch your bank. Not any bank you might have, but a very specific variety: the one that…
Now What? (Life Post Grad): The Vicious Cycle of Experience
Welcome to “Now What?” a weekly feature for figuring out what to do after you graduate college. It is the best time of times to be young. It is the worst of times to be young. This is the worst economy for recent college graduates in almost a century. All the promises of wealth you’ve…
The Fast Food Critic: Reviewing the Latest Foods Designed to Kill You
Today I’m reviewing the latest Frankenstein burger, the Jalapeno and Cheddar Stuffed Burger King Steakhouse Burger which sounds more like a sentence than a sandwich. As a general health rule, if your burger needs a period at the end of it (like Chili’s Bacon Ranch Cheddar Fried Onion Chili Burger), you might want to go…
Working Class Economist: Take Your Credit Card, Set It on Fire, and Piss on the Ashes
Welcome to Working Class Economist, a feature that will take a look at the economy through the people most affected by it but so rarely mentioned by policy wonks discussing interest rates or credit default swaps: people making less than 60,000 a year. Today’s feature is all in the title: the abusive relationship you have…