Category Archives: Educated Opinion
Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out About Bank of America’s New Fee
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) announced Thursday they’ll be instituting a new $5 monthly fee for what looks like most of their debit card users. They’re excluding those with premium checking accounts (over $20,000 in combined balances) and existing college … Continue reading
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Tagged ATM, BAC, Bank of America, Chase, Citi, credit card, debit card, fee, finance, rewards, SunTrust, TD Bank, Wells Fargo
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Balance Is Always an Art; Especially in Politics
I try to avoid getting political on this here forum, but every now and then something strikes my fancy. In this case it’s two articles that are pitted against each other. The first was written by the well known Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, Boehner, Cantor, Friedman, Hertzberg, Obama
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Save More, Waste Less
Why don’t we all choose to save more and waste less? There’s a novel idea. Good news is that GOOD thought the same thing and chose it as their GOOD 30-Day Challenge for the month of July. I’m sure some … Continue reading
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Tagged conserve, GOOD, plastic, reduce, reusable, waste
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Basketball’s Bracketgate and the Fall of America
I will preface the following post with a very important note. Some of you may think otherwise and your entitled to that opinion. However, I sit here and write this as a bonafide political moderate. [cue laughter from conservative friends … Continue reading
Posted in Educated Opinion, Sports
Tagged American, basketball, bracket, conservative, Libya, March Madness, NCAA, picks, President Obama, Republican
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Riders on a Storm (for the Subway Doors)
Dear Person Who Rides the Subway, I know that you: -Are selfish, or -Grumpy because you’re going to the job you can’t stand, or -Running late, for whatever reason, or -Too stupid, or -Have no common courtesy, or -Never studied … Continue reading
Posted in Educated Opinion, Life
Tagged Bloomberg, delay, ignorant, mayor, NYC, rude, subway
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Tease Me!
Let me start by reminding you all that here in the U.S. of A. we just celebrated the switch from Daylight Savings Time (DST) to Eastern Standard Time (EST). If you still haven’t realized this occurred I would argue that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Blacksburg, Daylight Savings Time, Halloween, Harry Potter, nurse, senator
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Imitation…
… is the highest form of flattery. However, when that imitation is borderline on plagiarism or thievery of intellectual property or a five finger discount on someone else’s ideas… that my friends is not flattering, nay I would profess it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Boyz, classy, flattery, imitate, Robin Hood, sassy, steal, thief
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What’s Wrong with America?
Just a quick little thought provoking rant topic here… When did this great country of ours lose the ability to participate in deliberative discourse? According to the Harvard Law School, Deliberative Discourse is summarized as followed… Reason is the keystone … Continue reading
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Tagged America, cougar, deliberative discourse, Democrat, driving, Harvard Law, Montinore Estate, Opinion, pinot noir, President Obama, reason, representative, Republican, Richmond, senator, Short Pump, snow, wine
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An Argument That’s “Too Light”…
… on the drink that’s “Just Right”. If you haven’t seen Bud Light’s new series of TV commercials featuring the “Too Light” v. “Too Heavy” scenarios then check them out here, here, and here and you’ll get the joke in … Continue reading
Posted in Educated Opinion, Virginia Tech
Tagged alcohol, EMS, Hokies, Opinion, Virginia Tech
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