Dixie Normus

Average new car price is $47k and our minimum insurance for vehicle/prop damage is $25k. I’d bet half the people with insurance in the state have minimum coverage. Statistically, ~12% of the population is uninsured. So, I’d bet half the people on the road are either uninsured or have barely half the...

They made a movie about this and the plane tried to blow the world up....

Well, it’s not perjury if you objectively believed in your statement. Saying “I didn’t break the law” isn’t perjury if you broke some obscure law and legitimately had no knowledge that you were breaking that obscure law. I don’t inherently disagree with your result—it’s pretty much always smart lega...

I don’t know that I’d say enjoy. I wouldn’t show up if they stopped paying me. However, I don’t hate it either. It’s like anything else—moments of satisfaction and moments of mind-numbing frustration sandwiched around your average highs and lows....

These protests have been bizarre. I could at least see being upset if we were intervening, but don’t understand protesting something another government is doing. Do they want us to go to war with Israel or something? It just seems like there’s no end goal to this because our government isn’t the one...

If a lawyer is on jury duty, it’s because he/she wants to be there. I guess we’ll see why at some point....

We have a single savings and checking account between us. We each have credit cards so as long as the credit card bills stay within reason neither of us worries about it. For apps, I really like YNAB for variable income households. It’s just a mobile version of the envelope savings method....

I had bad tendinitis in one of my elbows back in grad school. Started taking fish oil and never had another problem. It’s anecdotal and maybe something else fixed it, but that’s my $.02....

You could get popped with an audit which could subject you to penalties and heavy interest for failure to file. But, you could also run the risk of not doing so and flying under the radar....

Well-known that they were great friends and, while they had different legal opinions, respected each other a great deal. Unfortunately, it’s a lost concept in today’s world that people can respect each other and be friends despite ideological differences....