Geek Soap Box

Hi, my name is Ted. If you are reading this Web site, you probably already know me. If not, or even if you do, allow me to reintroduce myself. Like I said, my name is Ted, and I am a member of the working poor. You don’t hear a lot about us in the mainstream [...]

Blog Maverick: Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street and Give It to Main Street It should always be the natural reaction of any lover of freedom and liberty to be inclined towards opposing any new proposed tax, especially those proffered in the name of the public good.  This blog post from Mark Cuban, though, [...]

First things first: I owe a tremendous amount of money in unsecured credit card debt.  This total has accumulated incrementally over the years, across any number of individual cards and carriers, and is the result of questionable spending and poor bill management.  This situation is completely my fault; I acknowledge and accept responsibility for such, [...]

Like many Americans, I have found myself completely buried under a mountain of unsecured debt — i.e., the dangerous and often-uncontrollable weight of financial turmoil brought forth from the irresponsible overuse of credit cards. Now, before I begin my rant, let me make it perfectly clear: my situation arose as the direct result of my [...]