Sorry to be so snarkful about it SH, I just find those cards to be a deep and regrettable scam.

I didn't find it snarkful; I know there are both non-Starbucks and non-Apple folk around. Heck, until my Windows Mobile phone died on me (many, many times) while I was in Atlanta last month, *I* was a non-iPhone person.

I choose to spend money on coffee rather than other, more dangerous things to become addicted to. And if I can tie up my income in a coffee-only fashion, that guarantees I won't indulge in the stronger drugs the Seattle gay scene constantly pushes on me.

wrod. And so many Apple people are *so* annoying. (now, people don't generally need permission to be assholes, whatever the trigger is, but they really have internalized that whole "too cool for school" image.) But my posting about a computer problem is NOT your frickin' cue to step in and wax rhapsodic about your damn MacBook. Honest to god.ETA: Having Rahm Emanuel as my tag makes some conversations extra funny.

Re: crash test, go team crumple zones and airbag!

Rachel Maddow used that footage to illustrate Why Regulation Matters. She's so smart.

Rachel Maddow used that footage to illustrate Why Regulation Matters. She's so smart.

Yeah. And oh boy did the auto industry scream and cry about the evils of those regulations back in the '60s and '70s... as well as hire private investigators to dig up dirt on Ralph Nader.

I didn't find it snarkful; I know there are both non-Starbucks and non-Apple folk around.

Well, I'm not snarking at Starbucks (I get coffee there frequently), or Apple (currently on one). Just the the idea of the cards.

I'm not sure why MP is bringing this up now...

The whole thing is sick and horrifying, but she is pushing her new book. t /cynic

I remember watching a documentary on I think the Science Channel that was all about the development of car safety equipment. At one point, they had footage of an interview some tv reporter was doing with a mom sitting in her late 60s/early 70s car with her kindergarten-aged son sitting beside her. She was talking about how she didn't want some government hack telling her that she had to wear a seatbelt or, god forbid, make her child wear one. All I could picture was that sweet-faced boy being thrown through the windshield when she's in a crash.

That always seems to be the case with HR departments! (no offense, Scrappy.)

Actually, I think HR in general has an image problem because part of their job interacts directly with the rest of us, but not all of it. So when they aren't doing the interaction part, I can't figure out what they are doing -- because I don't really know what the other part is. Which is not their fault.

(Not that I'm letting this specific person off the hook because I really don't think she's using her time effectively...)

Thank you all for reminding me I'm out of coffee and need to run down to SBUX before they close. We do not need a repeat of this morning's Red Bull Cola. Bleh.