Don Henley used to hurry a lot, he used to worry a lot, he used to stay out till the break of day.
But you don’t need to carry on that way. — at least when it comes to reducing your company’s risk of independent contractor misclassification. Here are four steps you can take that
Snakes may have an eating disorder. Is cannibalism an eating disorder?
A wildlife technician for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources was searching for eastern indigo snakes, when he found a four-footer with an unusual appetite. Upon capture, the snake vomited up other snakes. The snake has eaten another indigo snake (no relation?), a rate
Cucumber in our garden, not from Iceland
There’s a cucumber shortage in Iceland.
But it’s not the farmers’ fault. While Iceland has fewer than 400,000 permanent residents, the country produces about six million cucumbers per year. This BBC article blames the shortage on the popularity of a cucumber salad recipe circulating on TikTok.
I could
Nature can be cruel. Friends can be crueler.
A 32-year old man was attacked by a brown bear earlier this month while hunting near Cooper Landing, Alaska. The man survived the bear attack, but then his hunting buddy shot him in the leg when trying to kill the bear. Thanks, buddy!
(No, it was not
There are lots of strategies for winning a chess match. Most gambits are named for people, but some have funny names like the Alien Gambit, the Zilbermints Double Countergambit, and the Fried Liver Attack.
At a chess tournament earlier this month in Makhachkala, Russia, one competitor tried a new strategy. She (allegedly)
In this video, Muhammad Rashid of Pakistan, crushes 39 cans in 30 seconds. With his head. (I like the little fist pump he gives at the end.)
Why would a person do this? To get attention, I imagine. It caught my attention.
The House Committee of Education and the Workforce may also be trying
Teacher, don’t you fill me up with your rules (fn1)
Brownsville Station was a rock band formed in Ann Arbor in 1969. (Go Blue!) Their biggest hit, Smokin’ in the Boys Room, reached #3 on the Billboard charts and was later covered by Motley Crue. The song was Motley Crue’s first Top 40 hit.
There was no post last week because I was on vacation. We went to Lake Michigan for a week of lakeside R&R, which was terrific and relaxing. I mostly unplugged, read books having nothing to do with lawyering, and went on two long beach runs (memo to the autocorrect gods: not Long Beach (CA) runs).
Today I am feeling whelmed.
That’s because I just read the 65-page opinion in Johnson v. NCAA. The issue before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was whether college athletes could plausibly be employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
A massive class action had been brought, and the NCAA and other defendants filed
Five fisherman from Sri Lanka died last month after drinking the unknown liquid they found in bottles floating about 300 miles offshore. The fisherman reportedly believed the bottles contained foreign liquor.
Ceylon Today reports that efforts are underway to inform nearby fishing trawlers about the dangers of drinking from floating bottles. It’s a good thing
