WaMu/Chase Dropping Their Interest Rate

I just learned from Flexo at Consumerism Commentary who learned from Five Cent Nickel who heard from a reader, William, that Washington Mutual is dropping the interest rate for their on-line savings accounts.
It’s true.  I immediately logged into my WaMu account and checked.  Sure enough both my account and The Daughter’s shows an APY of [...]

$$: Gas, Co-Pay, & Political Donation

Doctor Co-Pay — $25.00
I started my day the way everyone should — with a 20-minute cooling-my-heels session in my doctor’s office.
The reason for the appointment:  to get a referral/prescription for a new sleep study test.  I wasn’t sure which type of sleep study I needed (a couple of years ago I had two tests — one that [...]

Politics

I don’t consider myself to be a particularly political person.  This is due, in large part, to the fact that I have always felt so incredibly conflicted between my socially progressive ideological leanings and my quite-conservative personal values.  The Husband jokes about my schizophrenic sociological and political beliefs.  My own sister assumed for over 20 [...]