Archives for Opinion - Page 21
Tall vs. Short: The Debate over Earning Potential
"All limitations are self-imposed." -- Ernest Holmes Mark Borden of The New Yorker recently reported in an article called Shortchanged that there is a connection between height and money earned.…
Buying Self Esteem
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard In an effort to provide a little more testosterone at Queercents,…
Accessories: The King James Version
Tragic, but true: in my search for affordable fashion pieces I committed a socialist sin. Last weekend I bought a headband at Forever 21, that bastion of teenybopper trendiness. How…
Queercents and Gay and Lesbian Finances
What does sexual orientation have to do with personal finance? This was a question I was asked recently and not the first time either. I thought I would explain in…
Finding the Value
"You don't measure your self-worth by your net worth." ~Rick Warren Writer/Pastor One of the few times I actually agree with this man. I was recently reading Time Magazines cover…
Netflix and a Living Wage
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt As a Netflix…
The Best of Microfinancing
Some of you may have heard about , an online site that people can sign up, so that you can lend or borrow money from your peers to pay off…
Who Pays for Sex Reassignment Surgery?
"They don't 'cut it off!' It just becomes an innie instead of an outtie." - Felicity Huffman as Bree Osbourne in Transamerica Denise Lavoie, an Associated Press Writer in Boston…
Car Makers Support GLBT Community
has a list of Gay friendly Car makers the criteria are: "To be considered gay friendly, a manufacturer must offer domestic-partner benefits to their GLBT employees, no matter where they…
The Art of the Restaurant Upsell
"The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill." -- Bryan Miller I keep a standing dinner date at…