Lloyd Lund and the Women’s Show

Lloyd walks slowly toward me. He’s got a walker that he navigates well enough through the crowd; one of the fancy walkers, the kind with the seat built-in for a quick rest on the road.He’s smiling at me for as long as it takes him to approach, which over the fifteen feet of terrain could be as long as thirty seconds. He turns and sits on his walker throne and smiles even more broadly. “Slow today.” [Read more]

More Changing Times in the Insurance Industry

This article points out some interesting over-thinking going on at State Farm. I just changed to AmFam because SF was preparing to gouge me handily on their rate-Trident. Now, it looks like I would have taken the shaft and gotten less, truly important coverage. I wonder how long it’ll take me to get a claim processed if I get hit with, I don’t know, Serin gas? Hopefully, they can get my money to me within the thirty or thirty-five seconds I have to live. From the article:

Bloomington-based State Farm is sending letters to its 40 million auto customers that it will stop covering losses related to: "a. nuclear reaction; b. radiation or radioactive contamination from any source; or c. the accidental or intentional detonation or release of radiation from any nuclear or radioactive device," according to the language read by spokesman Joe Johnson.