A dog in Nebraska shot a woman in the arm last month in a convenience store parking lot.
Police were called to the scene after a shotgun blast from a parked truck struck a woman walking by. The culprit turned out to be a dog, who triggered the blast when moving around in the truck.
I flew to Washington, DC, last week and needed to bring scissors so I could cut and rewrap a bandage on my hand. The smallest scissors I could find were in a tiny Swiss Army knife that’s been in a drawer, unused for 20 years.
I took a chance and brought the tiny SWAK, but
Joint employment can mean different things to different people. For stoners, it could mean a groovy new job selling weed at the dispensary. For rheumatologists, it could mean hiring a new medical assistant to check elbows and knees.
But for most everyone else, it has nothing to do with joints at all. Joint employment just
According to the NYC Department of Transportation, there are just under 3 million free, on-street parking spots in New York City, Of course, they’re all taken, and if you want one, you’ll be circling for blocks.
But not if you have a parking spot holder. Can you really hire someone to do that? You most
I was in Italy two weeks ago and visited Vatican City. Passport control at the Rome airport was annoyingly slow, but getting in and out of Vatican City – a sovereign nation – was surprisingly easy. Here is a photo of border control at the Vatican.
Navigating the border between independent contractor and employee status
This is a photo of the sun setting last week over the Tiber River, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. I’m not a great photographer, but it’s a nice record shot from my trip to Italy last week.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week created its own record shot, formally readopting its
A daycare teacher in St. Charles, Illinois, was arrested this month after she allegedly gave the children candy-flavored laxatives. The plan, apparently, was to cause them to get diarrhea, which meant they would have to be sent home. The teacher’s motivation? She was overwhelmed at work. Fewer kids means less work.
I would counsel against
In the early 1800s, Parisian doctor François Broussais popularized the use of leeches for bloodletting. Vampires, apparently, were going out of fashion, and besides, leeches can eat 10 times their weight in blood, which seems more efficient than vampires anyway.
By the 1830s, France was importing 40 million leeches a year for medical use. Someone
The first labor union in the United States was the the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers, founded in 1794. What is a cordwainer? I had to look that up too, so I’ll save you the trouble.
It’s a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather, in contrast to a cobbler who repairs shoes.
Here are a few fun facts about Minnesota:
Who knew the blueberry muffin lobby held such sway?
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