This infographic from AdFreak is funny until you get to the very bottom right corner. Then you feel sad.
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Thoughts on Stripper Economics
So here’s a confession. My trip with a Reed economics class to Union Jacks this past weekend was actually my first time in a Portland strip club. And because it was my first time, I was taken aback by a couple things: So much money! So casually exchanged! It’s strange that the likely millions of […]
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Cancelling my Bank of America Account Took Exactly Nine Minutes
Until a couple weeks ago, the picture on my Bank of America debit card was me glaring at the camera at age 15. Now the card doesn’t exist. I’ve been a customer at Bank of America since I was eight years old but this December I called it quits. I timed how long it took […]
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Here’s Your Chance, Portland’s “Bad Girls!”
If you’ve been trolling the Craigslist want-ads daily like me, looking for bread crusts to dip in your water, you also saw this: Oxygen’s hit show “The Bad Girls Club” is casting in Portland! “The Bad Girls Club brings seven self-proclaimed ‘bad girls’ together in a beautiful mansion. Will living together help them move forward […]
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Do You Have $50?
Phew! Now that the present-buying BS is out of the way, it’s time to get down to the brass tacks of post-holiday merriment… spending money on yourself. Got some scratch from Grandma and Grandpa (five whole dollars!)? How about a couple sawbucks from returning those sheets Mom sent you? All in all, you might have […]
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Patton Oswalt Tells You What to Do with Your Moneys
Either you’ve seen The Room or you haven’t. (We have.) While we don’t know exactly how Tommy Wiseau got the money to make his celebrated film, Patton Oswalt riffs on a few of his suspicions in this video, as he parodies Wiseau’s long black hair and impenetrable accent. It’s funny, even if you haven’t seen […]
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Oregon Unemployment—Slightly Better, But People Are “Giving Up” Looking For Work
New statistics on Oregon’s unemployment level out yesterday suggest the state may be moving out of the worst period in its unemployment history. Statewide unemployment is now at 11.3 percent, according to the Oregon Employment Department, down almost a full percent from 12.2 percent in May, at the peak of unemployment. “It looks like this […]
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Fandango Can Suck It
We’ve been using Fandango to reserve movie tickets for a couple of years, and every now and then after I’ve bought the ticket, this woman’s voice will come up and say “click yes to claim your free ticket.” So I’d click yes. It turns out I wasn’t clicking “yes” to Fandango, but to sign up […]
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Timber & Oil Companies Bankroll Anti-Tax Measure
Alarmingly-named anti-tax group Oregonians Against Job Killing Taxes filed two referenda last week that aim to repeal the tax pacakge the legislature passed last session to patch some of the budget hole for Oregon education, health care and human services. State politico and Defend Oregon staffer Steve Novick spells out what would happen if voters […]
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Why Teens Make More Money Than You
Reason #1: You’re lazy.Reason #2: They know a “win-win-win-win-win-win” situation when they see it.Reason #3: Not scared of pulling in some serious buckage.Reason #4: Suuuuuuuweet!Reason #5: Wait a second… I’m pretty sure a couple of these “teens” are actually 47. LAME!!
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Here’s a Hint: That’s Not Water
Water should not have calories. I say this because it seems we’ve forgotten that fact. If you’re drinking some kind of bottled “water” and you’re concerned that it has too many calories, then you’re not actually drinking water. What you are drinking is weak juice. Also, any product that claims to have fewer calories than […]
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No Raise for Oregon’s Least-Paid Workers
This was (almost) last year’s hourly wage increase. For the first time in seven years, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industry will not raise our state’s minimum wage. The group announced today that because inflation has not risen in the past year, neither will Oregon’s lowest-paid jobs. Since voters passed Measure 25 back in […]