Danny Gallagher
How Does Unemployment Affect a Job Seeker’s Mental Health?
The word “unemployment” gets thrown around a lot during tough times and especially during major elections when it’s easy to throw a number on a situation that affects a lot of people.
It’s easy to forget, though, that being unemployed can affect a lot more than a person’s bottom line.
US Spends Most on Health Care Per Person Among Industrialized Nations — Dollars and Sense
Anyone in America who has gotten a medical bill for a CAT scan or an MRI might feel like they are paying some of the highest medical costs on the planet. That’s not an exaggeration.
13 Reasons Why You Won’t Be Getting a Mother’s Day Gift
Mother’s Day is just around the corner. That means if you haven’t done so already, now is the time to start figuring out how you’re gonna win your mom’s affection, or if you’re the mother, how you’re gonna guilt your children into showing them how much they care about you.
Some mommies, however, won’t be getting a gift or brunch in bed and not because their kids forgot that it’s Mother’s Day.
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Want to Go to Harvard or MIT? Now You Can with Free Online Courses
Two of America’s most prestigious universities are doing something that any other private university would consider a sign of clinical insanity. They are offering education, knowledge and enlightenment for free.
12 Outrageous Steps Congress Can Take to Improve Its Approval Rating
Recently, a poll of their Congressional approval rating found that only nine percent of the American people had a favorable rating of their senators and representatives. So the congressmen buckled down and got to work and got their rating up to…17 percent. If they want to keep up this white hot pace, they should try some of these ideas.
Cue the Dramatic Organ Music! Stolen Babe Ruth Tape on eBay Unveils Massive Theft
The National Archives literally house some of our only links to history’s greatest and most significant moments that normally couldn’t be found anywhere else except in the lost annals of time. One of them featuring baseball’s greatest home run hitter showed up on eBay, the only auction site that, as far as we know, doesn’t have a time travel portal.
Saddam Hussein Could Be Hunted Down on the Big Screen By…Robert Pattinson?
Robert Pattinson has long had the starry-eyed attention of teenage girls who wish they had a super strong vampire in their lives to fight werewolves for them. His next project may get the same attention from ultra-patriotic guys, minus the werewolves.
12 Ridiculous Causes of Road Rage
The cause of road rage is no major scientific secret. American drivers can be rude, obnoxious, selfish and downright dangerous. Just driving down any major thoroughfare in the country can turn Mother Theresa into Leona Helmsley.
Have You Ever Looked at Your Facebook Privacy Settings? 13 Million Users Haven’t
A large number of users haven’t tried to access their privacy settings since they signed up with Facebook.
A new report from Consumer Reports found that 13 million users have failed to do just that, despite Facebook’s attempts to update and strengthen their privacy system and settings.
Amazon Goes for Big Laughs — How You Can Help Launch Its New Sitcoms
The web has opened a new portal for original shows and movies, particularly on sites such as Hulu, Yahoo and Netflix.
Now Amazon has joined the race by putting together ideas for shows of its own.
13 Signs You’re Way Too Into ‘Marvel’s Avengers’
It’s safe to say that Marvel’s ‘The Avengers‘ will explode the minds of every comic book geek who ever walked the planet when it hits theaters on May 4th. Not only is it going to rake in a ton of money, but it’s bound to make the receipts for ‘The Hunger Games’ and the last ‘Twilight’ movie look like the penny tray at a gas station.
Theaters are going to be packed to the brim with fanboys dressed
How Many Hours Does It Take a McDonald’s Worker to Afford a Big Mac? — Dollars and Sense
Economics can complicate the world’s most enlightened mind. They often involve complex equations with more numerals and variables than the theory of relativity.
However, one study has found a rather novel way of measuring and comparing the rise and fall of wages and it involves McDonald’s most famous sandwich.