Boston.Com Offers Financial Advice to College Students, The Alt-Tab Supplements it With Actual Useful Information

Boston - Use a locked drawer or file holder to hold your personal documents – like bank and credit card account numbers, passport, Social Security number, etc. Better yet, leave your Social Security card at home and, certainly, don’t keep it in your wallet.

Yea these are all well and good if you buy your tighty-whitey’s in economy packs and demand your summer job pays you over the table, less you become the only 19 year old college student in history to be audited. But how about some real world college financial advice? I mean, a file system with a locked drawer? What is a file system? You mean like that folder on my desktop that says passwords? Save your receipts and maybe think twice about spending cash on Netflix and itunes? It’s called college file sharing networks, pirate that shit.

Here are some real world tips:

1) Buy the cheap beer,PBR, Natty, Keystone. It all gets you drunk.

2) Contraceptives are free in the student health office, they're just not ribbed.

3) Never buy books from your school bookstore (don’t know how the globe missed this one, or boston.com, I’m so confused).

4) Pre-game before the bars. This will save you 2-3 drinks minimum.

5) Stash re-heatable food from the res-café…you’re going to be hungry later and if your school is anything like mine was, your late night grill’s prices will be higher than anywhere else on campus. They know you’ll pay anything at that time. My personal fav was chicken nuggets, just put a bunch in a fountain cup and walk out like it ain’t no thang.

6) Mooch. There’s always some spoiled kid on your floor, befriend that kid. They’ve always got good snacks, gatorate instead of water bottles you’ve repeatedly filled up and are willing to chip in a little more for beer and party favors.

7) Don’t buy that girl drinks, she’s in college, she’ll figure out a way to get drinks, just make sure you’re around later on after she does.

Chef Gordon Ramsey Porn Dwarf Look-A-Like Dead In Badger Lair

Anorak - PERCY Foster is dead. The 35-year-old porn star with the looks of a pre-op Gordon Ramsay was “found deep in an underground chamber by Ministry of Agriculture experts ahead of a planned badger-gassing programme near Tregaron, west Wales.” We learn that his corpse had been “partially gnawed” by animals. Last week, the Sport told us: Percy said: “I made my first adult feature in 2009 with fully-sized woman Sonia Splitarse – I don’t think that’s her real name – and it was great fun. “It was in June of this year, on the set of Hi-Ho- Hi-Ho, It’s Up Your Arse We Go, that someone noticed I looked like Gordon Ramsay. “Porn lookalikes get more money than normal actors. Dwarf lookalikes are as rare as hen’s teeth and so can command top dollar. “I’ve already ordered a new BMW and a diamondencrusted Soda Stream.”

Sometimes as a blogger, you just have to know when to sit back and let the story do the work for you...this is clearly one of those times. There's just nothing you can add to this.

Al Gore Continues to be Trolled By Republicans About Global Warming

Fox News - The former vice president and outspoken climate-change defender plans a 24-hour worldwide presentation called "24 Hours of Reality" to combat the country's growing disbelief in his contention that man's actions have dramatically shaped the planet's climate and caused a rash of extreme weather. The project will broadcast a new presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday. It will be carried on Current, the TV and website platform Gore cofounded in 2005, and will take over social networks as well. "Each hour people living with the reality of climate change will connect the dots between recent extreme weather events — including floods, droughts and storms — and the manmade pollution that is changing our climate," the website for the project says. "The deniers may have millions of dollars to spend, but we have a powerful advantage. We have reality," the website reads. “It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company … to use the godd--- word ‘climate’!” he yelled. This time, rather than bluster, Gore intends to broadcast more of the presentations he popularized in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

I feel like Al Gore is some kind of internet message board lover who doesn’t realize he’s being trolled. Like the majority of these Tea Party nuts and Republicans can’t possibly be dumb enough not to realize that global warming is a real thing, they’re clearly just trying to get a rise out of him. And he plays right into it every time.  Look at him, he's so pissed off he's bought 24 hours of air time just to explain the science behind global warming...Al, we get it, they're just messing with you dude, calm down a little bit.

Count Me as Confused About this Whole Boston.com/BostonGlobe.Com Thing

Boston.COM - The Boston Globe today launches a new subscription-only website, BostonGlobe.com, betting that readers will be willing to pay for an online product that offers an innovative, inviting reading experience that is the only gateway to all of the Globe’s journalism. For the rest of September, BostonGlobe.com will be free, but after that readers will have to pay $3.99 a week for a digital-only subscription. Home delivery subscribers will not have to pay extra for the site but will need to register online to gain access.

Are you as confused as I am about this whole, Boston.com/Bostonglobe.com thing? I mean I’ve known that boston.con wasn’t the exact same thing as the boston globe, but also knew you could get the entire globe there. What’s the point of boston.com if the globe has it’s own website, outside of Love Letters and the bi-weekly cycle of best pizza places in boston/things to do for cheap in boston/fun drink of the season in boston?

This FAQ section didn’t clear up anything. I mean, do I have to sign up and pay for boston globe or not? On the one hand it sounds like they’ve formed the new website to separate anything that’s actually in the globe, on the other these FAQ’s are vaguely saying all the same stories will be there…how is this possible? I mean weren’t 90% of the news stories on boston.com from the globe? I come there for news, not these local blogs you’ve been pushing on me lately.

Oh wait...The Globe thinks I'm going to pay $3.99 a week for the internet? That's a joke, right? You expect people to pay $207 a year for an online newspaper? Ha. Nice try Globe. You're not the Wall Street Journal, not unique or overly important in any way shape or form. I think I'll do just fine reading all the other Boston news outlet websites for free, not gonna miss much...Plus, Meredith Goldstein is still gonna be on Boston.Com, that's all I really need anyway.

PS: Isn't the NY Times still free? You guys think you're better than the NY Times?  

AG Coakley Doesn't Think ID's at Electoral Polls Are Necessary, I'll Prove Her Wrong

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - One local politician says it will cut down on voter fraud, but the Massachusetts Attorney General says it's unconstitutional. Now the debate about whether voters should show ID before casting their ballots is heading to court. AG Martha Coakley believes she is protecting the Freedoms of Elections Act by saying voters should not have to pay the $25 for an ID in order to vote. Mansfield Selectman Olivier Kozlowski disagrees. He thinks identification will help cut down on voter fraud, so much so that he is filing suit with the state's Supreme Judicial Court. Attorney Kozlowski wants a question on the fall 2012 ballot and is organizing a group to collect the approximately 70,000 signatures needed between now and November, the Boston Herald reported.

Martha, what the hell dude? The Freedom of Elections Act clearly specifies that voters must be registered US citizens, no? How else are you supposed to determine if each voter is a registered citizen? The honor system? You can't be that naive, right? I mean you're the AG, you're aware that people commonly lie, right? Seems pretty critical to your job actually.

I mean, isn't it a fine for an adult to be walking around with out identification anyway? 

Because we wouldn’t want people doing things like proving they’re registered United States citizens before taking part in our government, right? We’ll just leave it up to the little old grandma checking off names on those gigantic reams of computer paper with her pencil to make a judgement call on everyones legality. Nevermind the fact that they can’t even handle my dad and I being a Sr./Jr. Combo. When we used to vote in the same ward I would love the annual question of, “Oh, which one are you?” Lady, one of us was born in the 50’s and one of us in the 80’s, take a wild fucking guess. But yea, I’m sure Doris, Dot, and Shirley can sniff out all the illegals and double voters.

Better yet, keep it so we don't have to show our ID's, I'll just vote 20-30 times on election day against Martha. That should solve the problem.

NYPD Cops Get They Freak On During 2011 West Indie Parade

NY Daily News - The NYPD is reviewing a new Internet video that appears to show city cops in uniform provocatively grinding scantily clad women at the West Indian Day Parade. Several women participated in the parade-route debauchery and sought out uniformed officers for the dirty dancing. But two other apparent NYPD officers were all too willing to get frisky. They can be seen on the video aggressively play-thrusting their pelvises up against the backsides of at least two women, gyrating to the beat.

Two men in uniform who appear to be NYPD cops looked embarrassed and practically stood still when they were approached by women who bent over and shoved their rear-ends into the cops' groins.

First of all, at the risk of offending the fine people of West Indie, can someone tell me where that is? I assume it's like Jamaica only smaller? Secondly, if they're allowed to have a parade that involves shaking their asses and jugs and jersey turnpiking, and shit, that on any other day would get them arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior then I'd say the cops are allowed to jump in on the fun. They're ignoring blatant public decency violations, they gotta get a little something out of it, no?

And this news reporter can spare me the "people were shot in other parts of the parade," guilt trip.  They weren't shot on these guys blocks, right? These guys were just keeping the peace, Protecting and Servicing. No one's ever been mad enough to shoot someone while they're getting dry humped in the streets, just doesn't happen. How about disciplining the other cops who allowed the shooting to happen on their block?