Author: Mark Draughn
UNCATEGORIZED DEPT.
Fatal Distraction
I just read a story in the Washington Post that’s going to stay with me a long, long time. It’s by Gene Weingarten, it’s brilliantly written, and it will break your heart. You have been warned. The story is about people who have accidentally left their babies in their cars in the heat, with fatal… Read more
SCIENCE DEPT.
Pluto and the Final Stage of Grief
I’ll tell you, I didn’t have much Love for the Pluto haters. But I’ve come to accept the truth of it. Pluto crosses the orbit of Neptune, it’s tilted out of the ecliptic, there’s other crap all around it, and it’s small—almost as small as its moon, which doesn’t even orbit a point inside Pluto.… Read more
CONSUMER AFFAIRS DEPT.
“What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?”
Google offers some fantastic services to users of the internet, but they’re so big that we’re all small potatos to them, which is probably why they seem to avoid giving one-on-one customer service whenever possible. So when Aaron Greenspan of Think Computer Corporation had trouble getting anyone at Google to explain why they cancelled his… Read more
LIFE LESSONS DEPT.
Getting Your Pen Back
As I get older, I feel the need to pass on some of the accumulated wisdom of my years, so with this post I’m starting the Windypundit Life Lessons Department. It’s too late to help poor Scott, but the secret to getting people to remember to give back a pen you’ve loaned them is to… Read more
SCATTERSHOT DEPT.
Health Status, Yoo, TP, Legal Costs, and a White Wedding
Random shots around the web: I’ve often thought the best way to provide health insurance for pre-existing conditions would be to have the lifetime cost of the condition paid by whatever insurance company you had when you were first diagnosed. Ronald Bailey explores a hybrid variation of this called health status insurance that seems to… Read more