Your $3/gallon Put to Good Use

The Raw Story | Democratic senator wants SEC investigation of ExxonMobil's $400m 'retirement package'

ExxonMobil has agreed to give their CEO, Lee Raymond, a $400 million retirement package, a simply outrageous amount. For comparison, David O'Reilly, CEO of Chevron has a $3.57 million long-term compensation package.

According to the Wall Street Journal, "Raymond's pay package amounted to $190,915 a day."

From the story linked above:

“These major oil companies have hooked their hose up to the pocketbooks of American citizens and are sucking money from ordinary Americans into the treasury of the giant oil companies," he said in a statement. "The result is that Exxon reported the highest profit in the history of corporate America last year. Today we read that while farmers struggle to pay the fuel bills and drivers are paying painful prices to fill their gas tanks the oil companies are rolling in cash and their retired executives are getting obscene retirement benefits.”

MLG Comes to TV

Professional Video Gaming Set for TV Debut

MLG (Major League Gaming) has struck a deal with USA Network to air seven hour-long episodes this fall featuring Halo 2 and Smash Brothers Melee pro video game tournaments. MLG has been around for a little while, but this will take their recognition beyond video game junkies and pseudo-junkies like myself.

I am intrigued and look forward to watching this pan out to see if it catches on as they hope it will. I really think that, if done right, this could catch on and garner the interest of even those who don't play video games all that much.

Honestly, I'm jealous...making money to play video games, that's always been a dream job that I never thought existed.