And all others who didn’t grow up learning to drive on snow: Jim McDonald has some helpful tips. Please read them in case we have an unseasonable snow and I get stuck behind you on 101.
Oct 312007
A Worker’s Memorial
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Oct 212007
La Lubu posts the text of a kick-ass speech she gave at the April 2006 Workers’ Memorial.
The short version: As soon as you start whining about how coddled Kids These Days are and how overprotecting [other] parents are, you have officially become a blathering old fart, and you might as well have a disclaimer slung around your neck: “Please disregard the above as fatally tainted with half-assed nostalgia. Also, my memory isn’t what it used to be.”
Oct 202007
If I had known about this rule, I would have spent a lot more time getting laid and a lot less time saying “I’ve already mentioned several things we could do, how about you pick one ” through clenched teeth.
Oct 072007
I can teach my daughters about Photoshop, and patriarchy, and that people who tell them “you’d be beautiful if only….” are just trying to get them to fall into line.
But is all that going to be as powerful as the onslaught of messages they get from everywhere else?
Oct 022007
Insurance companies in Washington state are panicking over an initiative that would subject them to triple damages for denying a legitimate claim.
It is true, as the McTools point out, that this will encourage more lawsuits; what they don’t want to spell out is that it increases lawsuits because victims are not at a financial disadvantage, either paying out-of-pocket for legal fees, or hoping that their claim is worth enough to persuade a lawyer to take their case on contingency. (In other words, unless your claim is big, your insurance company can gleefully deny it because they know you won’t sue.) This makes the financial incentives to pursue a valid claim much, much bigger.
Insurance companies aren’t really in the business of insurance anymore. They’re in the business of persuading you to hand over the money they invest, and they don’t take kindly to being told they have to give some of it back.
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