Well, the Braves tomahawk-chopped the Marlins twice. The Mets beat the Yankees. The Tigers topped the White Sox. The Indians scalped the Reds. The surging Cardinals beat the Nationals. The Rangers took down the Diamondbacks. The Royals beat the Blue Jays. The Athletics sank the Mariners. The Angels beat the Padres. And the Giants took down their rival Dodgers. Fortunately the World Champion Houston Astros got a day off.
Do we have any birthday boys or girls? If so, you share this date with none other than: everyone’s favorite huckleberry Doc Holliday, TV inventor John Logie Baird, baseball’s Hall Of Fame manager Earl Weaver, rocker David Crosby, funnyman Steve Martin, romance novelist Danielle Steele, The Far Side creator Gary Larson, driver and target of chicken bones and beer cans Rusty Wallace, basketball star Magic Johnson, actress Halle Berry, strange-voiced Mila Kunis, and alleged virgin Tim Tebow.
Its also the day Kublai Khan wished he had doppler radar because he lost 3500 ships in a typhoon, Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay taxes, the last public execution in the United States was held (in 1936), the Japs unconditionally surrendered and WW2 came to a close, “I Got You Babe” went to #1, Pete Rose (who would later voluntarily accept a lifetime ban from MLB) passed Hank Aaron for most all-time at bats, and Winnie Mandela was sued by the South African government.
A scathing, and timely, media takedown of…the media. But its from the NY Post, so I doubt anybody in the bubble will heed any of the warnings. Besides, they’re too busy saving the world from the free exchange of ideas and information. At least according to them they are.
Does the plaintiff even have standing? I say neigh. Others say yes.
And speaking of pandering politicians…this one might win the award for biggest asshole of the year. Because, you know, anyone that thanks the people who dropped their tax rate from 38 to 20% is in league with white nationalists, or something. Either way, this guy is an asshole who doesn’t realize or doesn’t care that there are actual people who work at these places. And they vote.
*Except in San Francisco where you step around or over them because they’re on the sidewalk. But be careful not to run your foot through a heroin needle. Because they’re all over as well.
And in what should be a bigger story than it is, the Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the dollar. But global currency meltdowns aren’t as important as whether or not Trump is on a recording in the WH. Because “media priorities” aren’t important news, they’re hot takes that generate clicks.
Happy Monday, ever’body. And an especially happy Monday to me as it is back-to-school for both the wife and children. No, no, I’m not a slightly younger man with candy. My wife is a professional student, although we’ve negotiated that this will be her last educational venture that “we” pay for. After this she has to bring home at least as much money as she spends on school. It has been a remarkably quiet and productive day. Although I did stay up far too late drinking last night. I’m pretty sure my corner of the (brand new with a half-dozen beautiful free-weight lifting platforms!) gym today smelled like a brewery. But hey, the gym is not optional.
That guy in the parking lot shooting in Florida will be charged with manslaughter. I think this is the right call in this case. The shooter had four previous altercations that involved police, with him being the aggressor. Its unclear to me that someone with a documented history of “looking for trouble”, who initiated a verbal but aggressive and persistent confrontation with a woman shouldn’t face a jury of his peers to arbitrate whether or not he acted reasonably. That said, I’m not convinced that a guilty verdict should be returned. There was at least enough doubt in my mind, and in many others that a trial is probably appropriate.
Monk takes abusing the bishop too far. Defrocked monk beats Coptic bishop to death. The Copts have enough enemies without killing each other.
Turn that drone voyeurism hobby into a very lucrative career. Enough to pay your hobby’s legal bills, one hopes.
The Lancet known for publishing several blockbuster studies that have lowered the efficacy of public health by being fabricated and wrong, goes big with a comparative cost analysis of endocrine-disrupting chemicals and their harms in the US vs. the EU. (Think BPA and birth control in the water). Their hypothesis, which they magically proved, is that the US has higher cost because of less regulation. I think my favorite part is the metric “IQ points lost”. Several, reading this study. Interestingly, they also determined that the cost due to pesticides in the EU was triple the US — which on a per capita basis, I would have guessed Roundup to be far more plentifully sprayed in the US.
The Astros are slumping a bit. Dropping 4 in a row has the AL West competitive. Thank God Seattle is leaving town. Boston beat Baltimore, who is now effectively 50 games back in their division, a number I don’t think I’ve ever seen. New York and Cleveland are safe in their respective wild card and division leader positions. So the west is where all the action will be coming down the stretch. Over on the Senior Circuit, the Braves and Phils are tied for the east lead, the Cubs are 3 up on the Brewers in the central, with St Louis also surging and the D-backs are up a game on LA, with Colorado right there in the mix another half game back. Not to mention the wild card race is extremely tight. So that entire side of the ledger is gonna be fun to watch the next five weeks.
Your EPL winners and draws for the week were: drew Southampton and Burnley and Everton and Wolves. Winners were Man United, Spurs, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Chelski, Watford, Man City and the Liverpool Reds hammered the Hammers 4-0.
Lastly, Brooks Koepka won his third major, snatching the PGA Championship, where Tiger Woods finally made me say I think h will win another major at some point over the next couple of years by playing four solid rounds and coming in second. He’ll still never be Jack or Bobby (in no particular order, ok?), but its looking like he’s back.
One of, if not the, best ever
Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley was born on this date. She shares its with such famous and infamous people as arguably-the-best-director-ever Alfred Hitchcock, golf great Ben Hogan, murderous scumbag Fidel Castro, musician Don Ho, money manipulator Janet Yellin, hockey goon Bobby Clarke, loved/hated golf presenter David Feherty, “actor”/”musician” Danny Bonaduce, the greatest darts player ever Phil Taylor, rocker Ian Highland, and singer Dan Fogelberg.
Its also the day on which Cortez ended the Aztec Empire by capturing Cuahtemoc, Voltaire’s “Zaire” premiered, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus opened with eh first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle (which I would like to see someday at the festival), Ataturk was installed as the first Turkish president, “Bonnie and Clyde” hit theaters, Jim Palmer threw a no-hitter, IE 3.0 was released, and the first episode of South Park aired.
Did you get all that? I hope so, because I’m already past it and on to…the links!
Just in case you were dumb enough to believe Google wasn’t using tracking services on your android devices even when you turn them off, you can put that delusion to rest. They track you in a very specific violation of your settings and in gross violation of your confidence, meanwhile they ban Alex Jones for violating the terms of service. Seems legit.
This is apparently the good kind of media silencing.
No, nod a computer code, or encryption…a code in my nose. Yes, I am using these. I hate summer codes.
Swiss people IN the code.
SEA SMITH was in the rotation tonight, but he heard I was sick and he said “NO GO NEAR CONTAGIOUS LAND HOOMAN!” I think he just snuck off to hang out with NINGEN.
BLOOP!
So here are your links, with very little fanfare:
I don’t think that anyone is going to be prosperous on the Bosporus any time soon.
HerToo#? Aren’t we supposed to BelieveHer# always, Keith?
I am curious if this incident will have much of an effect on Emirates Airlines – a major European sports sponsor.
Last night was far more successful. It started with a failure, though, with the NFL Network app failing to work for the third night in a row. This was apparently universal, since SP’s search turned up thousands of people complaining and canceling their service. Which we did as well. Instead, we turned to the movie recommendations of everyone not named Mad Scientist or Sloopy, and quickly settled on I’m Alright, Jack, hat tip to IObOt. And it was not only a wonderful movie, written and acted to perfection, it was a slice of history which foreshadowed the inevitable crash that led to Thatcherism in England and brilliantly lampooned their class system (right down to the accents). Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to be imprisoned in a unionized workplace will be nodding with sad familiarity through much of this. Peter Sellers does something that most actors are incapable of, but that he could do with seemingly no effort- completely disappearing into his roles. Great flick.
In the now-mandatory category of birthdays and events, today is the birthday of Erwin Schroedinger, he of the eponymous equation and roving penis. Also, Nazi collaborator George Soros, gun safety expert Plaxico Burress, and vastly-overrated guitarist Pat “More Phase Shifter!” Metheny. And this is the anniversary of the death of the last quagga and the discovery of one of Chicago’s great landmarks, Sue.
In the video, an officer is seen pushing McGrier up against a wall. McGrier appears to push the officer’s hand away. The officer then repeatedly punches McGrier, who does not appear to strike back. The punches continue until McGrier lands onto rowhouse steps before finally falling to the pavement. The officer then pins McGrier down. A second officer is present but does not appear to partake in the beating.
And inevitably, the racist cop is rewarded with paid vacation. Because totality of circs, procedures followed, and, oh yeah, union.
For instance, in an appearance on CNN on Monday, when challenged on the costs of government-financed health care, she answered: “Why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care? That is part of the cost of our system.”
Huh?
Of course, WaPo being WaPo, there’s a few half-hearted attempts to make her sound not quite as stupid as she actually is.
[T]o be fair to Ocasio-Cortez, the average member of Congress might easily make many bloopers over the course of so many live interviews.
Well, if the best defense is, “She’s no stupider than Hank Johnson,” we’re in for an amusing next two years.
Community members confronted a circle of police in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood over a “bait truck” filled with Nike shoes and allegedly left open by police aiming to lure potential thieves and make arrests. “Y’all dirty, man,” a man tells officers in an online video of the incident published Thursday. “Y’all see kids playing ball and you pull a f—– Nike truck into the ghetto.”
But Norfolk Southern Railway, which operated the truck with assistance from the Chicago Police Department, denied that the sting targeted neighborhood youth and that the truck was ever left open. Three men, ages 21 and over, were charged with burglary last week after they broke into the truck, police said.
Here’s the giveaway:
After the confrontation, however, the white truck is driven away.
Shelly L. Miller, environmental engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently launched a barrage of tweets linking to research into the effects of gas on indoor air quality; she claims that she “just got annoyed when asked if there was evidence of health effects from gas stoves…” Seriously, anyone who reads this will want to rip out their gas range.
I wonder if barrages of tweets will now replace actual publications on academic CVs?
After scanning this research I can only conclude that gas ranges simply do not belong in our homes, particularly in open kitchens, and should never be used without a properly designed and balanced exhaust system, which is almost impossible to find. And for a modern, well-sealed home with controlled mechanical ventilation, (like a Passive House), just forget about it.
Well, that’s that. I’m going back to rubbing two sticks together.
Who are you to judge me??? You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to assfuck without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment! Because it’s judgment that defeats us.
To reiterate, I would pay ten grand to fuck Dora the Explorer up the ass. Ten Grand.
“I was born there, yes,” he said of Trinidad to an interviewer in 1983. “I thought it was a great mistake.”
I have trouble thinking of any book of his that wasn’t delightful and insightful. “Among The Believers”
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of numbers. When it drops to ten again he waits for it to get back to eighteen. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten. Well, it gets back there. But he has wasted a quarter of his life. And all he’s got out of his money is a little mathematical excitement.
The comments are, of course, predictable.
He was a reactionary writer with emotion and prejudice mix with misinterpretation of faith, history and his own Indian identity subdued by the English colonial power. The depth of his self-identity was reminiscent of his past living in poverty and coping with Hindu values he was raised with and living under the wrath of White Christian colonial hegemony. His writings are full of crisis and the story of poor brown man subjected to power.
Yet he would contradict himself in the same pros attacking one religion and subjecting himself to the power of another without the same critique.
Among The Believers was the last book of his I read, and the insights from 1981 are particularly poignant today.
Old Guy Music, this time featuring a guitarist who, in a just world, would be living in mansions and driven around in Bentleys in the manner of pop music hacks without 5% of his talent and creativity, Bill Frisell. This is a live version of a very avant garde and difficult tune, John McLaughlin’s Follow Your Heart aka Arjen’s Bag, a blues-based composition in 11/8. And Joey Baron does a wonderful job here as well.
Friday night in the Candy household. The Old Man is freshly back from a week of torture in Atlanta. There’s a bottle of sparkling wine (New Mexico’s finest) waiting to be drunk, and a meal being prepared. But what we don’t have is… the right movie to watch. We needed suggestions. Now, in a perfect world, we’d probably ask LT Fish or Ted S for advice, since these guys know movies and have excellent taste. But since we needed an immediate response, we were limited to people whose phone numbers we had on hand. Sloopy? Fuck no, he thinks dull Spielberg flicks with big rubber fish are entertaining. Francisco d’Anconia? Even worse, he thinks that Tom Cruise movies centered around homoerotic beach volleyball games are high art. Spudalicious? The last time we asked him that question, we ended up with a movie called Fuck My Face, which, although it had its moments, was somewhat repetitious. Riven? I’m not interested in Jeff Goldblum masturbatory material.
SP had a brainstorm: let’s ask Mad Scientist! His suggestion? Beverly Hills Chihuahua. “Ok, you’re going to to think this is stupid, but it’s surprisingly endearing. When my wife rented it I thought it was going to be horrible, but it turned out to be surprisingly not bad!”
Never take movie advice from Mad Scientist. I think we may have lasted 15 minutes before we said, “I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE!” and turned it off. Now, you know a movie has to be incredibly awful for a Jew to not sit through it after we had paid money for it.
And what amazes me the most is… THERE WAS A SEQUEL! Who says that originality and creativity in Hollywood is dead?
OK, today is August 11. What makes this date auspicious? It is the birthday of Erwin Chargaff, whose rule, A=T and G=C, provided the main clue for Watson and Crick to unravel the structure of DNA (fun fact: Chargaff hated those guys), relentless self-promoter Marilyn vos Savant (but she was right about the Monty Hall problem), and fantastic street artist Pavel 183.
What else makes this date auspicious? Yes, some interesting news stories.
“Before it is too late, Washington must give up the misguided notion that our relationship can be asymmetrical and come to terms with the fact that Turkey has alternatives. Failure to reverse this trend of unilateralism and disrespect will require us to start looking for new friends and allies,” Erdogan said.
The military said a tank fired shells at a Hamas positon after Palestinians threw explosive devices and a grenade at forces stationed near the border. It was not immediately clear whether the Hamas protests at the border were included in cease-fire negotiations.
“You didn’t say we couldn’t throw grenades! Unfair! Unfair!”
Remember when Global Warming (since rebranded to “Climate Change,” and recently rebranded to “Hothouse Effect”) was going to destroy agriculture, cause massive crop failures, leaving millions to starve from lack of food? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
U.S. farmers are expected to produce a record-high soybean crop this year, according to the Crop Production report issued today by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service… Soybean yields are expected to average 51.6 bushels per acre, up 2.5 bushels from last year. Record soybean yields are expected in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Average corn yield is forecast at 178.4 bushels per acre, up 1.8 bushels from last year. If realized, this will be the highest yield on record for the United States. NASS forecasts record-high yields in Alabama, Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Tennessee.
Wheat production is forecast at 1.88 billion bushels, up 8 percent from 2017.
See, this is just a sign that disaster is right around the corner!
I’ll tell you. Umm. One of the things that I think, for me, is most important is the role that I serve on that various committees that I’m on — umm — which are oversight committees. Let’s be clear. Those committees exist to watch and question what is going on with our government, the United States government. So, I’m on Senate Intelligence, I’m on Homeland Security, I’m on Judiciary and the accomplishment then is for me is a function of what I think my role should be.
You know who else was being positioned by Team Blue to be our next president and substituted resume points for accomplishment?
JournoList 2. But this time, we’re not even bothering to hide it.
A Boston newspaper is proposing a coordinated editorial response from publications across the U.S. to President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on the news media.
“We are not the enemy of the people,” said Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page of The Boston Globe… The newspaper’s request was being promoted by industry groups such as the American Society of News Editors and regional groups like the New England Newspaper and Press Association. It suggested editorial boards take a common stand against Trump’s words regardless of their politics, or whether they generally editorialized in support of or in opposition to the president’s policies.
I’m sorry, but this shit’s hilarious. Especially when viewed in light of amazingly lame rationalizations like this of transparently partisan attempts at doing hit pieces. And failing miserably, of course. But we’ll get that Roadrunner next time!
Old Guy Music is inevitable. And I’ll be brief: every time I hear Victor Wooten play, I wonder, “How the fuck does he DO that????”
STEVE SMITH CONTINUE WORK AS PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER. HIM WILL HELP CASCADIA BE FREE. AS RESULT, STEVE SMITH HAVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. FORESTLINKS. HIM HOPE YOU LIKE. IF NOT, COME VISIT STEVE SMITH IN WOODS, IN CASCADIA. HIM ADDRESS COMPLAINTS. BY ADDRESS COMPLAINTS, MEAN…
STEVE SMITH NO LIKE FOREST FIRES! THINK HOOMAN WHO SET SHOULD BE TURNED OVER TO STEVE SMITH FOR INTERROGATION. BY INTERROGATION, MEAN RAPE. A LOT. WHEN STEVE SMITH YOUNG RAPESQUATCH, HIM WAS IN FIRE IN WOODS. HAD TO RUN AND DIVE RIVER. WHEN COME OUT, SAW BEAR STANDING ON SHORE.
WHAT MEAN “ONLY YOU?!”
HIM SAY “ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES”. STEVE SMITH SHAKE OFF WATER AND GRAB SHOVEL FROM BEAR. HIT BEAR OVER HEAD AND YELL “STEVE SMITH NO START FIRE, STOOPID BEAR!” THEN STEVE SMITH EAT BEAR HAT AND BREAK SHOVEL. WOULD HAVE RAPED BEAR, BUT NEED RUN MORE.
SMALL HOOMANS NO WANT FRENCH LOGGING COMPANY. BUT STEVE SMITH WONDER, “WHO WANT FRENCH ANYWAY?”
LOOK LIKE STEVE SMITH HAVE ANOTHER “INTERROGATION” OF SUSPECT. THISREALLY STOOPID. NO DO STOOPID THINGS IN CASCADIA!
THIS NOT FOREST STORY, BUT MAKE STEVE SMITH LAUGH. STEVE SMITH WRITE GOOD, NOT LIKE DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL! STEVE SMITH GO TEACH SLAVERS WRITE GOOD. BY TEACH TO WRITE GOOD, MEAN…TEACH WRITE GOOD.
Today, my youngest son — the “Ted” half of Bill & Ted — turned 3. Happy birthday to this future shitlord, who shows all signs of becoming a cis-hetero white male. If he chooses to identify as something else, he’ll always be my little T. Wrecks. And, its Friday people. Let’s all get wreck’d.
This Paul Manafort trial is a fucking circus. As some people like to point out, the process IS the punishment
Canada is going to fall out of favor with the gun control lobby if these mass shootings keep happening.
Lots and lots (and lots!) of caveats, but The Verge dares pose the question — is there actually any proof that nicotine alone in a moderate dose is in any way harmful.
And withdrawing from nicotine is awful: “Anxiety, depression, irritability, hunger, weight gain — all of those are symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, which are unpleasant. So that sums it up,” Leventhal says.
These people have never seen some of my coworkers suffering acute caffeine withdrawal.
Red Tide creeping up towards me. Turrists unphased. Around here, if there aren’t a bunch of dead fish and it doesn’t smell like a whore’s crotch at the end of her shift, its okay to go in the water.
I watched that video and had to wonder — what happened to the bongos player in T. Rex after Mark Bolan died? Can you imagine interviewing him to join the next band. “Right then, what do you do?” “Well, I play the bongos and sing the high parts.”
Well I hope y’all have had a good week so far. Its certainly been a long one, full of interesting things. What wasn’t interesting (to me) was the performance of Justin Verlander last night. I haven’t seen him have an outing like that in years. Oh well, can’t win (or no-decision) them all. So yes, the Mariners beat the Astros last night. The other winners were: Washington, Cleveland, San Diego, New York (AL), Toronto, Tampa, LA and Pittsburgh.
A logjam at the top of the leaderboard at the PGA Championship, with long-hitter Gary Woodland at -6. Rickie Fowler is positioning himself well for a weekend meltdown and sits one back. Zach Johnson is two back and a host of players including the ever-intense Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, and Justin Roseanother stroke back. Tiger and Bubba, two of the least likable people in the game, are both even, which is the current cut line.
There was also a bunch of preseason NFL going on, but I don’t care to report on it since the games mean less than nothing at this point.
My son and his proud father after his swearing-in ceremony.
Before I get into the birthdays and historical events for this date, I want to give a special shout-out to my son. He took his oath yesterday and is now officially in the U.S. Army. He was floundering after high school and wasn’t really too jazzed up about college, so he did his work, got great scores on his tests and after much consideration (and pressure from the number of people who served in his family and a few family friends to choose the correct branch), he chose the Army. He ships out to basic on September 6th. I couldn’t possibly be prouder of him.
Famous birthdays today include: William Howe, whose ass the United States kicked to gain our independence, Mexican revolutionary and second presidente Vicente Guerrero, chocolate man Henri Nestle, oil tycoon Edward Doheny, inventor and zeppelin pilot Hugo Eckner, average to below-average president Herbert Hoover, poker wizard Doyle Brunson, Bush crony Harriet Miers, musician Ian Anderson, actress and weirdo family member Rosanna Arquette, actor Antonio Banderas, musicians Jon Farriss and Dan Donovan, boxer Riddick Bowe, and Palestinian Prime Minister (and terrorist sympathizer or employer) Rami Hamdallah.
It was also the date on which Titus set fire to the second temple in Jerusalem, the Declaration of Independence reached London, Mozart completed “A Little Night Music”, the Louvre opened its doors, Ecuador declared independence from Spain, Missouri became a state, badass Nat Turner led his uprising, the future pope John XXIII became a priest, Japan said they were ready to surrender, “Sunset Boulevard” premiered, so did “Psycho”, the US launched its first lunar orbiter, David Berkowitz was arrested for the “Son Of Sam” killings, Billy Martin’s number was retired, and RBG was sworn in to there Supreme Court.
My favorite bit of that was the DoI reaching London. I would have loved to see the look on the faces of George and his courtesans as it was read to them. Priceless. Anyway, on to…the links!
Sounds like a hell of a party. I don’t understand why they would have been arrested since they weren’t bothering anyone. But that’s the state of things in America. Maybe he’ll dump some of those billions into educating the general public on minding their own freaking business, but I would imagine his attorney will tell him that’s not a very sound plan.
The SEC is taking interest in Elon Musk’s tweets. Its still to be determined if he has the juice to take the company private, but if I were a shareholder and someone offered me $75 a share more than its currently trading at (and probably double or triple what its really worth), I’d be jumping at the offer.
This is what patchwork drug legalization looks like. And those state and local officials were right there with the feds doing their work. Because that’s what cops do. SO if you want drugs to be legal, you’re wasting your time until the federal government unschedules it at a minimum.
I lied on Monday when I said I was gone for the week. Here I am! But I’m sleepy as hell and I’ve been dealing with stupid all week. (Small rant after links.)
And WebDom links wouldn’t be complete without a product you need. In this case, 60lbs of cheese, which gives further credence to the idea that Amazon sells everything.
As for the stupid…
State Farm has been our car insurance company since my husband and I got married, and we’ve been very happy until two months ago. They had some technical issue in June, and State Farm is shitty at communicating, so we find out a month ago that our car insurance is about to be canceled for non-payment because the June payment never showed up. I call in a panic, reconnect our autopay, which worked flawlessly for 5 years, and pay the bill. Well, last week I just got another cancellation notice because the July payment never showed up because they fucked up the bank account connection.
Between that and the fact that our insurance has been $50/mo higher than they said after my husband bought a car in May, I got really pissed and started shopping around for new car insurance.
In an unexpected turn of events, the GEICO tagline actually proved to be true. 15 minutes DID save us 15% or more on car insurance. In fact, it saved us 57% on our premiums, and our deductibles are 60% lower.
Their app works perfectly (complaints about the dumb bot aside). Their customer service (who I had to contact about a typo on the insurance card) was swift and easy to reach through the app. And, while I’ve only been a customer for about 16hrs, I am already happier than I have been with any of the other insurance companies I’ve been with since I got my license.
And speaking about my license, I had to renew my license, and because of the RealID bullshit, it’s worse than ever. I already gave them my social security card, birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc., when I got the damned thing. I had to show up with all of that, plus my electric bill, my paystub, and my car registration.
But because New York is stupid, my car registration does not count as proof of NY residency, but my paystub, which totally could’ve been faked in Microsoft Word, does count a proof of residency. (WTF?)
