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Don’t Buy: Bad Political Math

Sieg heil!?  … No, dumbass.
A) Barack Obama + taxing rich people = Adolf Hitler
Mmm…yeah…no.  Even if you ignore the fact that Hitler was not a Marxist…this is still retarded.  (Story)
B) Sarah Palin + 4 years = viable presidential candidate
This woman couldn’t even graduate college in 4 years.  (Story)
C) John Edwards - all integrity = viable [...]

Buy: Washingtonians

I’m going to take this opportunity to send a little love out to the other 500,000 or so inhabitants of the place I currently call home, Washington D.C.  Washingtonians are not really known for being awesome.  The city was famously described by JFK as possessing “Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”  (Burn!)  It also gets shit [...]

Buy: The iTunes Genius Sidebar

 Once a week or so, I’ll be doin’ what I do on my computer (ie reading Miley Cyrus/Britney Spears/Jennifer Aniston gossip, the female equivalent of internet porn), and a software update will pop up.  90% of the time I click “Later,” until several weeks later I get so sick of seeing the damn things that [...]

Don’t Buy: My University’s Psychology Department

My school is not exactly known for its psychology program. I don’t know enough about it to call it “bad,” but it’s not a focal point here. And I’m going to wager that this entry in the daily school newsletter is an example of why:
Students Needed for Psychology Study on Alcohol and Sexual [...]

Don’t Buy: Stupid People

I’m aware that this is kind of a broad topic.  But I just discovered this on AOL News:
 
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Oct. 4) - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

But it was no laughing matter to the [...]

Don’t Buy: Katherine Heigl Scrubs

It’s totally hot right now to hate on Katherine Heigl, and I gotta be honest, I’m not breaking the mold here - I, too, feel disproportionate hatred towards the most successful alum of my 8th grade self’s favorite WB show.  She’s an ungrateful hypocrite who rudely dissed the (admittedly bad) writers of her own tv [...]

Don’t Buy: Anonymous

So some big (kinda) news yesterday - that internet hacker protest group thingy “Anonymous” hacked into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account and posted the files of a bunch of private e-mails.
Anonymous is already a vaguely well-known group because earlier this year they staged all these anti-Scientology protests and wore masks and shit. And while [...]

Buy: Human Cockroaches

You know that saying? That when the nuclear apocalypse comes, all that will be left is the earth and the sky and the cockroaches?
Well, that saying is not entirely accurate, because whoever came up with it had clearly never heard of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty.
First there is Amy. Singer, songwriter, overall a [...]

Don’t Buy: Jennifer Aniston’s Comeback Attempt(s)

A bit of tv news today - Jennifer Aniston will be guest-starring on this season of one of my favorite shows ever, 30 Rock.
Dude…I hate Jennifer Aniston.  And to be honest, I can’t quite explain the levels of hate that I feel everytime I see her annoying, square-jawed face.  It could be that Friends was one [...]

Don’t Buy: Sarah Palin

Ever since John McCain announced Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate on Friday, I’ve been going crazy trying to find as much information about her as possible.  The public has very little knowledge of her, and if things stay that way, it could actually be a boon to the Repubs.  Right now she [...]