I know it’s old news at this point, but I needed to stick it here SO I NEVER LOSE IT.
It’s Amazing
It’s amazing how much work you don’t get done when email, instant messenger, and Skype are on/open.
It’s amazing how much new business you miss when email, instant messenger, and Skype are off/closed.
Single-use, or Not?
Whenever I’m at a public place and am using the men’s room for the first time, I have no idea if I’m about to walk into a single-use bathroom or a multi-use bathroom. It’s not a huge deal, but it always gives me a moment’s stress to think I might be walking in on somebody who forgot to lock the door from the inside.
The bathroom signs are great at informing us which door is for women and which door is for men, but they make no effort to tell us if the bathroom is single-use or not. Here’s what popped into my head the other day:
Simple.
BP’s tree fell on my lawn
A big tree blew over over on our property. That was an act of God. Parts of it landed on my neighbor’s property. Another act of God. It was my responsibility to pay for its removal. If I’m going to go around growing trees, I have to pay if they get blown over. You can be sure my neighbor will pay if one of his trees blows this way. And if my neighbor could prove that I was trying to cut the tree down (for fuel, let’s say) and it fell the wrong way, he’d have grounds for a lawsuit. Especially if it fell on his house and he could no longer live there.
BP had a very big tree that blew down in the Gulf. It was not looking after it properly. It ignored or evaded safety regulations. It possibly bore criminal responsibility. The tree fell on my property. BP should have to pay to remove that tree, right? What if it enlisted cops to prevent me from even walking over and taking photos of what they were doing on my property? What if they issued statements saying it wasn’t such a large tree, and my property would soon recover? What if it landed on my house, and BP said it wasn’t much of a house in the first place? […]
What I don’t understand is how corporations were granted their immunity. How it is axiomatically understood that their interests come before those of people or even their governments?
