Doctor Dollars

Thanks for all the well wishes yesterday.  RC is doing better.  Me?  Not so much.  You want to hear about Joe the Bigamist, don't you?  Well, I promise I'll get to him tomorrow.  First I need to whine a little bit more about being sick.  Well, not really about being sick but about being knocked on my ass for several days by some mutated amoebas. Whatever.  I don't even like myself when I'm sick, so how can I expect any of you to read what I write? I feel like I've experienced freak osmosis with

Dear Mercury Casualy Insurance Company,

Fuck you. I know I start all my letters like this, but this time I really mean it.  Your company is scum.  You will no longer be getting my business. When I filed my claim to fix my car because it was in an accident, you were obliged to fix it or total it and give me the cash for it.  You, for some unknown reason, decided that it would be worth paying $10,000 to fix a car only worth $6500.  That seems ridiculous to me, but that’s on you.  Now that you decided to pay $9000 after my deductible

I am a Zipster

Today I am officially a member of Zipcar, and I am pretty darn excited. If you don’t know what ZipCar is,visit ZipCar.com. Well I also can explain it. Basically i is like a co-op car rental service. You pay a yearly or monthly fee depending on your plan and you can rent a car for as little as 7 bucks an hour depending on your plan (That is if I did my math right). With the rental you get free gas and insurance. You just have to obey the rules, like keep the car clean etc. Those rules are easy ru

How To Sell A Car That’s Still Got A Loan Oustanding

by John Brennan Many people find themselves in a position where theyare ready to sell their current car and purchase a new one, before their current car loan is paid off. You used to be stuck with the car until the payments were made, although now some dealers are offering to take over the payments of your current finance loan in exchange for purchasing a car from them. But if you want to get what the car is worth, you may be wondering, how can I sell a car that is already under a car finance