“Thanks to a sharp uptick in the company’s investment assets, State Farm still managed to post after-tax profits of $777 million. Too bad you can’t buy shares of State Farm — the insurance giant is owned by its policyholders. But you can purchase just about any kind of coverage from them. And thanks to its burgeoning financial operations, consumers can now borrow money and buy an assortment of mutual funds as well.”
Derek Bridges
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We lost power. Outside, the streetlights were out, everybody’s lights seemed to be out, and an orange glow loomed. My daughter and I roamed over to the fire, walked all the way around it–like a lot of people.
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) should be commended for voting to repeal DADT but his reaction was kind of weird (via TPM):
A.O. Scott of The New York Times has a brief review of a new documentary about Spalding Gray, the man we borrowed the phrase “bark, bugs, leaves, and lizards” from (yes, that’s his serial comma):
From a Jason Francisco review (@ArtsCriticATL.com) of Michael David Murphy’s new photography show in Atlanta: As a…
We were supposed to have a garage sale on Sunday, August 28, 2005. We had recently moved into a house we bought in Central City and had cleaned out our old Broadmoor apartment and planned to sell the odds and ends that didn’t make it to our new home. It was to be the final hurrah of our move. Suffice to say we evacuated the night before and the garage sale never happened. I didn’t get back into town for another three weeks, but there on the second floor of our old apartment’s stoop was our last Times-Picayune, still in the plastic and dry. I tossed the paper in the car and drove back to Houston. I finally pulled that newspaper out of its plastic bag this weekend.
Colorado Rockies catcher Miguel Olivo: With his team trailing 5-1 in the 8th inning, the Colorado backstop…
By “you” I mean the “United States Justice Department“: “Criminal prosecutions alone, I have learned, are not…
The Yankees have a guy in the minors who can pitch righty and lefty. SI.com: Making his…
My 5-year-old pen pal says (via her mother): Derek’s a nice person. He doesn’t care how I…
If I were to sell any prints or images of costumed Mardi Gras Indians, I’d certainly split…
My new pen pal (via email) is a 5 year old girl living in Richmond, VA named…
They come from the other side of St. Charles Avenue.