How Rich Are You? Find Out Your World Wealth Ranking

There is a new website out there that allows you to input your salary and it tells you where you rank in the world. Here is a link to a Yahoo article telling you about the site and below that is the actual link to the site. This sounds really cool and can put things into perspective as to how lucky you really are to be an American and to have what you have.

Yahoo Article

I'm the 54,369,871 richest person on earth! Discover how rich you are! >>

Why Is Sweet Tea So Expensive?

I have asked myself this question so many times, and yet I cannot gather an answer that makes sense. It seems like in the past few years, tea has gotten almost unaffordable to order at a restaurant. In many cases, if there is a beer special, it is cheaper to have a beer!

For example, I went out to eat the other night at BW3's. My wife ordered a sweet tea, and I of course had two beers because if I am going to spend money on something other than water, it is going to have alcohol. Her tea cost around $2.20 plus tax. Prior to eating my wings I ordered, I ate a salad. The side salad was only $2.99. For an extra 80 cents, as opposed to only getting a few glasses of colored water with a little sugar, I got a salad with crips iceburg lettuce, tomato, cheese, onions, croutons, bacon bits, and ranch dressing. Let's think about that. A cow had to be raised to produce milk so we could have the cheese and ranch. A pig had to be raised so we could have the bacon. Multiple farmers had to grow the lettuce, onion, and tomato, and all were probably shipped separately on transport trucks. The tea is one plant that is dried and tied into a small pouch that heated water passes over and then they add a little sugar. How could these two products cost the same?

As for me, I will never drink tea again as I refuse to pay over two dollars for colored sugar water.

Sick Nasty Dunk By the Milwaukee Bucks Mascot

Wasted Guy And Flip Flops Do Not Mix

Check out this hilarious video of some dude that has obviously had too much to drink struggle to put on his flip flops.

Wasted Guy Flip Flops

How Much Do You Really Pay In Taxes?

Here is an interesting article I wrote on how much of your money really goes to paying taxes of some sort. It is a must read.

High Taxes? High Is Not The Word

Need Your Help! Make Gastonia the Single Best Town

Currently, the Disney channel is running a contest for the Single Best Town in the US and Gastonia has been selected as one of the ten finalists. This could be very exciting because if Gastonia wins, we will win a free block party with the country music group Love and Theft, among other stars from daytime soaps, as well as contests, games and free giveaways. Please take the time to go and cast your vote here so we can win!

NCSU Almost Won 2010 ACC Tournament

And by almost, I mean they did not even make it to the championship, but they did get farther than UNC Chapel Hill! NC State showed a lot of composure to show up for that tournament, and get two good victories, especially after the disappointing regular season. We missed another year of being invited to the big dance, but still I am not totally disappointed.

Besides, our season is not over. Tomorrow night on ESPNU at 8:00PM, we will be playing USF for our first game in the NIT Tournament. IT may not be as exciting as the NCAA Tournament, but it still gives us a chance to compete and maybe even prove we should have been a NCAA contender. In my opinion, the winner of the NIT is a much better team than the never heard of conference champion that plays in the play in game anyway.

In any event, let's show a little pride and see if we can root the Wolfpack on to a few more victories. With our good run in the ACC Tournament, and another good run in the NIT, that can give us some momentum going into next season.