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 hand them the pen but keep the cap. When they absentmindedly put the pen away, the need to … [Read more...] about Getting Your Pen Back
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 provide portability, choice, and … [Read more...] about Health Status, Yoo, TP, Legal Costs, and a White Wedding
Are We Living In the 21st Century or What?
My wife is flying back home right now, and I've got to pick her up from the airport. In one window, I've got a display of the plane's flight track from FlightAware. In another window, I'm running a Google Earth satellite image with her plane's current position superimposed, thanks to fboweb.com. In yet another window, I'm running streaming audio of the airport tower courtesy of … [Read more...] about Are We Living In the 21st Century or What?
A Cop Who Should Be Fired
I'm pretty late with this one. According to the story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, King County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene is shown here beating down a 15-year-old girl because she...wait for it...kicked off her shoe in a way caused it to struck him in the leg: I suppose it's possible that something else was going on here that we can't see, although the … [Read more...] about A Cop Who Should Be Fired
Responding to Tom McKenna on the Frederick Verdict
Virginia prosecutor Tom McKenna and I never seem to agree on anything (except maybe guns) and my previous post in response to a police officer's complaint about the verdict in the Ryan Frederick case is no exception: A blogging police officer complains of a manslaughter conviction for a dope dealer who killed a police officer attempting to serve a search warrant at his … [Read more...] about Responding to Tom McKenna on the Frederick Verdict