Tag: regulations

  • Is Environmental Regulation Good?

    A statistical paradox both fascinating and heartbreaking.

  • How to Piss Off a Bridgetender

    I have spent a great deal of time writing about how much I love my job. I really do. I swear I do. Just… not today. Perhaps it’s because we are marinating in the last, bitter dregs of the holiday season, and everyone is getting cranky. Perhaps I’m the bitter one, because everyone is out…

  • Why is this Important in Life?

    In every bureaucracy there are rules that probably came about for a very good reason, but they have become obsolete over time. No one in a position of power seems to have the courage to make changes, let alone rescind rules, so what you are left with are a bunch of absurd policies that you…

  • Those Alluring Amish

    What is it about the Amish that fascinates us so? Their lifestyle supports a massive tourist industry. They’ve inspired movies, have experienced public tragedies and scandals, and have spawned a crop of reality shows which should all have been entitled “Amish Gone Wild.” And we can’t seem to get enough. I can only speak for…

  • No More Fried Chicken for Breakfast and Other Self-Imposed Rules

    Since I work graveyard shift, I tend to eat very strange things for breakfast. I get off work at 8 am craving hamburgers, and after eating them, I go to bed for the day. Recently I found this fantastic 24 hour fried chicken place on my route home from work. The only problem is that…

  • Thank a Roofer

    My boyfriend is a roofer, and a harder worker you will never find. I watch him go out there, day after day, in blistering heat and inclement weather, and slowly destroy his body. He has broken his fingers, put nails through various body parts, fallen off roofs, and is constantly cut, bruised, scraped and battered.…