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{ Monthly Archives } October 2007

Attention native Californians!

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.

2007 10 31 mythago Weather Comments (1)

A Worker’s Memorial

La Lubu posts the text of a kick-ass speech she gave at the April 2006 Workers’ Memorial.

2007 10 21 mythago Economics
Politics Comments Off

GenX dons the mantle of parental dumbassery

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 [...]

2007 10 21 mythago Dumbth
You Kids Get Off My Lawn Comments (4)

If only I had known

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.

2007 10 20 mythago Uncategorized Comments (2)

Onslaught

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?

2007 10 07 mythago Angry
Feminism Comments (10)

Bad-faith claims

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 [...]

2007 10 02 mythago Economics
Law Comments (3)