Mammon category archive
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Houston Chronicle follows the money.
Overdrafted 0
I used to wonder how persons who use their debit cards to buy $1.39 cups of coffee (just to pick one example) kept track of their bank accounts. Then I read about the overdraft fees that banks collect and realized, they don’t.
Here’s a hint: carry cash.
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Doing It the Old Fashioned Way 0
I have learned that, as phone companies have increasingly yielded to customer pressure to become more vigilant in blocking car warranty scammers, the scammers have taken to the mails.
Yesterday, I received a letter from a company I’ve never heard of (“Endurance”) warning me that the “extended service plan” that I never purchased was about to expire . . . .
Be forewarned.
(Gramatikal error correxted.)
The Snaring Economy 0
Welcome to the carrion crow school of economics.
One more time, “ride sharing” is nothing more than gypsy cabs with an app.
Merchants of Death, Reprise 0
Bill Torpy explores how one gun manufacture promotes its portable phalluses. Here’s one little example; follow the link for more.
The ad showed a boy, maybe 4 years old, with a semiautomatic rifle in his lap, along with a Bible passage: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Taking the Veil 0
So much for “render unto Caesar.”
Aside:
This is a dead giveaway–it’s all (or at least mostly) about the Benjamins.
Second Amendment Frights 0
Don’t kid yourself. It’s not about Constitutional rights or self-protection.
The Shills 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary marvels as ESPN’s relentless promoting of sports betting.
Muskrat Stats 0
Elon Musk tries to game the numbers.
