Ambrose Bierce called insurance “an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” Liability auto insurance can shield you from the worst financial fallout of an accident, but it’s still a long shot that you’ll need it. When buying a policy, consider: How lucky do you feel, and how much do you stand to lose?
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Making sense of auto insurance rates
Paying auto insurance premiums month after month can be a bitter pill to swallow. It’s like a bet you’re never allowed to collect on because, if you do, chances are you’re premiums will go up. Maybe the pill would go down a bit easier if we better understood how the odd little people in the green visors calculate our premiums.
Why does your nose run when you eat spicy food?
According to the Simpsons, the Merciless Pepper of Quetzalacatenango is grown by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum deep in the jungle primeval. Homer resorted to coating his mouth with candle wax to beat the heat of this so-called Guatemalan Insanity Pepper. In this article, I’ll try to give you some better options while I answer the piquant question…
The will to win and the will to prepare
Structurally, humans aren’t build for sprinting, but we’re surprisingly good distance runners. Maybe that’s why 5k races and charity events have made such great strides around the world. Then again, maybe we’re just a race of masochists. Either way, if you’re going the distance, and you’re ready to kick your 5k into high gear, read on.
From the clubhouse to the moon
Whether you regard golf as the epitome of Zen mind or, as Mark Twain put it, “a good walk spoiled,” you’ve probably wondered where and how such a peculiar pastime originated. Who would devise a sport that “consists of putting little balls into little holes with instruments very ill adapted to [the] purpose,” as one Oxford tutor noted? And furthermore, who thought that an expanse of hummocky, pitted grassland would make an ideal setting for it?
The Scots, that’s who.
Actually, the origins of golf are not quite that cut-and-dried. You might be surprised at who lays claim to the sport’s origin. You might also be astounded at the long history of women and minorities on the links, and some of the historic traditions and great players that have made the game what it is today.