Leftists hate Lee Kuan Yew because he showed in one generation that good governance is a technical and operational endeavor, not a moral performance or an exercise in redistributive grievance.
I have been re-reading Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ for the first time in c. 30 years. The first time I hated him: good on male friendship; interesting on Manichaeism, but otherwise a conceited monster with no real care for anyone other than ‘mummy’. On re-reading, I hate him more.
Houston Specialty insured a bar for $1M.
Bar's stairs left a man paralyzed.
HSIC's defense strategy: ask the jury for $0.
Jury's response: $644,000,000.
They are now a named judgment defendant facing bad faith exposure that could threaten the solvency of their parent, Skyward Specialty $SKWD.
Social inflation isn't theoretical anymore.
Stay tuned, motion for New Trial filed by defendant.
I've tasted trying to fix people, and I've tasted forcing the truth down their throats. I highly recommend not caring more about people's lives than they do. No one is your assignment.
Not even the ones you love.
Me at church: *walks down stairs fast*
Choir member: "oh God don't do that."
I never thought I'd get grief from someone for having kneecaps with cartilage.
I tweaked my right inner hip yesterday using a safety squat bar. I keep saying "Jacob fought God and won", and I'll keep saying it, but I'm not naive. This is the second right hip issue I've had in a year.
@billcseplo@ReganCoda The south and the midwest have more wealth than people initially think so I'm not surprised that EJ wants to break into that market.
But status quo is powerful. If pawpaw and memaw and auntie kept their money with an EJ FA and the FA did right by their family, they'll stay.