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Vote for Donna!

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Our friend Donna Freedman has made it into the finals of the PF Olympics! They’ve asked her to write another story to be voted on, and she’s posted it at the Go Banking Rates site. The assignment is to explain what “golden rule” of personal finance you’ve abandoned since the recession, and why.

I think it’s a pretty amazing piece, and it speaks to the condition that many Americans will see themselves in—if not now, then in the future. The unspoken subplot is that Donna has adapted to changing economic conditions that sooner or later may affect most American workers. IMHO, she’s way ahead of the curve, psychologically and in terms of work strategy.

So, if you will, go to the post, “The Way We Work,” and vote for it there. Also let your friends and fans know about it on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever else you schmooze online. Here’s a tweet with tiny URL:

For the PF Olympics, Donna Freedman confesses breaking a golden financial rule! Read how & vote (daily, to 8/11). http://tinyurl.com/c6offx9

You can vote once a day from now thru August 11. So…vote early and vote often!

Vote Now! What’s Funny’s Best Post of the Year?

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Jacob at My Personal Finance Journey just emailed to say the blog is hosting this year’s Tour de Personal Finance! He asks PF bloggers to send in their best post of the past year.

As many of you may know, Jacob is a strong believer in charitable giving. He’s reserving 10% of his blog income for June and July (and this is a guy who actually has a blog income) as prize money and as a donation to the winner’s charity of choice. So as you can see, this competition is a worthy cause.

Well, heck. I don’t know which was Funny’s best post over the past 12 months. How about you tell me?

What do you think is the best post that’s appeared in these precincts of late? In case, like me, you can’t remember that far back, here are my own candidates:

Debt Consolidation: Proceed with Caution
Higher Education in America: A Modest Proposal
Opportunity Cost/Hassle Cost
Codeine Cough Medicine… Where’s Our Common Sense Gone?
Springtime, the Very Pretty Burglar Time
Entrepreneurs: Crystal Stemberger’s Blogging Empire
WTF Is In Your Food?

Which of these do you think, dear reader, is most likely to hold its own in the hot competition that is the Tour de Personal Finance? Or do you have a better candidate? Please let me know, one way or the other, in the comments below.

To get in Jacob’s spirit, if our nominated post winds the Yellow Jersey, I will donate my part of the prize winnings to Habitat for Humanity, as well as designating the part offered for the winner’s charity to go to the All Saints choir.

Deadline is June 24. But last year a lot of people participated, so if any of the posts above (or elsewhere) look like likely candidates, we should move fast.

Tell me your choice, and I’ll send the consensus winner to Jacob ASAP.

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Adjunctorium Returns!

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Some of you may have noticed that Adjunctorium went defunct for a few days. It’s an unnecessarily long story, mostly involving my arriving at the point where I was too sick to wriggle my fingers just as we were ready to switch the site from WordPress.com to Bluehost.

But today I’m up for a little light housekeeping, and so Adjunctorium is back online with its very own .com address. And I see FaM’s RSS feed is tracking it again.

Expect some upgrades over the next week or two: a better template, graphics, a “subscribe” button, and who knows what else.

Check Out My New Blog!

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As if I didn’t have enough on my plate, I decided it would be fun (and maybe someday profitable) to start a new blog in which to vent and rave about my teaching adventures. Called Adjunctorium, it just went live in WordPress.com.

This’ll be the beta version. If it goes over reasonably well after, say, three or four months, then I’ll move it over to BlueHost so as to monetize it a bit.

Go on over and check it out! Lemme know if it looks promising.

Oppose SOPA and PIPA

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 Okay, Funny is not blacking out today. Instead, we’re scraping the following message from MoveOn.org—presumably they won’t mind the copyright violation in a good cause.
 
A number of sites, including Wikipedia‘s, explain the broad implications for free speech and access to information. Some parts of the proposed legislation are redundant with existing law; others are invasive and probably unconstitutional. Go here to find contact information for your representatives, and don’t fail to tell them how you feel about SOPA and PIPA. These are not dead letters, and we need to make our elected leaders understand that we want to see the stuff go away and not come back.
 
From MoveOn.org:

 

MoveOn.org: CENSORED

This Internet Censorship Legislation Is Terrible

The Internet that we know and love is under attack by big media and pharmaceutical corporations. Their lobbyists are pushing Internet censorship legislation like the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The copyright enforcement mechanisms in these bills would restrict online innovation and threaten the existence of websites with user-submitted content—including the MoveOn.org front page, Reddit, and Wikipedia.

We’re taking time today to focus and act on this important issue. We encourage you to do the same.

Get involved

Watch this video from Fight for the Future, which explains the Internet censorship legislation and why it’s so bad.

Learn more:

We’ll be back tomorrow, keeping the pressure up to stop Internet censorship and trying to win every progressive battle that we fight together.

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