This spring, I applied for a Discover Bank $25 bonus promotion. The written promotion said “a minimum deposit of [a certain amount]…must be received by 4/15/2013.” Discover Bank received said certain amount from me in March. My account balance was less than said certain amount on 4/15/2013. Discover Bank has refused to give me the […]
Who was or will be the first American denied his gun rights due to a diagnosis of hoarding?
I have translated many hundreds of thousand words for TransPerfect over the course of several years. As evidenced by my ever-increasing rates and TransPerfect’s continued patronage during that time, I understand that mine was quality work. I worked on a split job in September 2009, for which I was paid in November of 2009. Incidentally, […]
Tagged TransPerfect scam, TransPerfect sucksLike the other two novels in this series, this was a real page-turner for me. I couldn’t wait to find out if the writing could get any worse than it already was. Almost everything about this book was bad, from the characters’ uni-dimensional stiff-upper-lip traditionalism to their stilted Ayn-Randian soapbox dialogue. These novels should be […]
There’s quite an eye-opening dialogue at http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block217.html. Libertarian Walter Block is defending his position, which in essence is that (1) an infected person violates the non-aggression principle when others become infected after contact with said infected person, and (2) forcing said infected person to be vaccinated for said infection does not violate the non-aggression principle. […]
The Resilience Imperative and Civil Disobedience “Well then, perhaps we need to follow the leads of McKibben, Jaccard, and Hansen, and go get arrested. Perhaps we need to breathe deeply and act courageously to make hope more concrete and despair less convincing. Perhaps those of us in the 50 to 90-year-old set need to commit […]
Page 5. “As citizens of the world’s richest country, we expend little energy worrying about the millions of vital yet mundane functions our government undertakes. Roads are built, sewer systems maintained, mail delivered. We aren’t preoccupied by the thought that skyscrapers will come crashing down because of unenforced building codes; we don’t fret that our […]
OK, so everybody’s chattering away about how people need jobs so the economy turns around. I’ve got 100 jobs available today. Of course, they don’t pay anything. Not interested? Then perhaps it’s not so much a job that you want, but rather the money that you earn from a job. Great. I’ve got thousands of […]
I ate the first-ever of my orchard’s fruits today, a Sugar May white-fleshed acid peach. A tree-ripened peach is definitely better than store-bought. It’s even better from a tree you’ve taken care of yourself. The tree set a total of two fruits.