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Payday

If this were my old blog, I'd go off on a rant about the evil vortex that payday loans become for many hard-working Americans.   I'd throw out numbers and percentages and links and type for what seems like a year (because the research takes forever), but once posted ends up being a few scrawny paragraphs.  And most of those links would be relatively dated since new regulation kicked in a year ago. 

As it is, let me just sum it by saying this: Even with new rules in place, payday loans are the work of the devil deregulation and therefore just another way in which corporations screw the little guy for profit.  For the love of your long-term financial health, not to mention your sanity, avoid them like the plague.  

For the record, 11 states don't have payday lenders.  Oklahoma does, obviously. And when I googled "payday loans Oklahoma City"  I got four pages of location hits.  ->

Strip Mall Perspective

Say you:  I would kinda like to know what the sign says and I kinda can't with this closeup.  

Say me: I know.  But I love this pic, a happy accident, so it's the official Flavor of the Day.  Let me change positions and back up a bit....

Say me: OK, how about now?  

Say you: Nice try, with you being cute and all.  Still can't read it.  

This pic was the runner up.  I almost went with it.  


But really, you DO need to see the sign in its entirety so you can fully appreciate my making a special trip up to the ever classy Moore, Oklahoma to shoot this baby.   


Ready?  Here goes:  



But wait!  There's more!  The flip side reads:  

The Dalai Lama couldn't have said it better himself.  -> 

Stripped mall

Sheetrock, insulation, and other various and sundry building materials at a strip mall near my folks' house. At this point only a liquor store lives there.  Which is fitting, really.  ->