Weekend Links

Greetings! Lots of craziness on the gridiron this week. Packers lost. Stupid crappy Saints lost. And the best football franchise in the history of the world, my beloved Falcons, were defeated last week. I suspect cheating was involved with that one. Any bets on who will end up in the Super Bowl? Could we possibly be in for a Patriots-Giants rematch?

On to the links!

I Was Interviewed By Credit Card Assist!

First of all, I’d like to think Bill over at Credit Card Assist for interviewing me for their Best of the Blogger series. Go check it out if you’d like to hear some of my thoughts on blogging. Or if you want to know my last name.

Less Awesome But Still Pretty Awesome Links

Oh boy, was there a flame war on twitter last week between Suze Orman and some bloggers I know. Jeremy at Gen X Finance shares his unfavorable opinion of her new prepaid debit card. Kevin at Thousandaire.com shares his opinion, as well. Naturally, I have my own opinion on the matter which I’ll be writing about soon. My opinion is actually a bit more favorable than most others. I’ll explain why in the post.

Speaking of opinions on the internet, Mike at Money Smarts Blog gives his opinion on online opinions. And no, this one isn’t related to Suze Orman.

Ever wonder why everybody else always seems to have more money than you do?  The Finance Buff ruminates on a few reasons this may seem to be so when it isn’t really true.

Paula’s tenant got kidnapped in midtown Atlanta. It’s pretty funny how incompetent the kidnappers turned out to be. There’s also a follow-up post with more details.

JD at Get Rich Slowly reposted one from the archives I actually hadn’t read before called How to Fend Off Financial Trolls, or Haters Gonna Hate. You know those annoying people who have nothing positive to say about money, rich people, banks, or whatever else and constantly tell your goals and ideas are stupid and won’t work? Yeah, I don’t like hanging out with them either.