Hi kids.  Thanks for your patience.  Still trying to figure out this whole blog thing.  First a couple of announcements: Please direct all questions about KF Li to Mike Triforce.  Even those of us who will never own a new car (me) know that an 8.5% interest rate is criminal.  I do not have Mike Triforce’s number and no, I do not know whether he and the Princess have an “arrangement.” I will say this though, as far as I know he is straight and I am the first to admit that that question is more than legitimate. To our LGBT friends do not worry, Triforce is NOT your voice on this blog.

Next, I am introducing a new post entitled “Post of the Week” which will be a longer post about a subject of interest and since both Alpha Man and Simon’s Girlfriend have informed me I have done nothing for Black History Month, the first post of the week will go to Alpha Man.  Triforce is looking at a draft and mumbled something about a conspiracy theory. 

 More information, including why this is not a political blog and two new contests I need help with after the break.

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Hi Kids. People have been commenting that there has been less useful information and more paranoia, idiocy and douche-baggery in recent posts SO yours truly has decided to start at the beginning with this simple principle: You are taxed on what you make, and you pay interest on what you borrow. If this simple truth does not inform your big picture than you are hopelessly at risk of over borrowing.

Now I know what you’re thinking, if you got into a school good enough to merit borrowing to attend, then you should be able to add and subtract right? I am sure each of us has made decisions that are different from what we would have chosen as our answer if our situation had been presented to us as a word problem on the SAT.

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