Can Use of Social Media Change Your Insurance Rates?

Jun 14, 2010 | One Comment

Checking into several bars in one night via FourSquare may not be such a hot idea, after all. According to Jeremiah Owyang, insurance companies are not immune to checking up on you via social sites like Twitter and Facebook. What they find could reward you in the form of lower rates. However, you could also [...]

My Parents are Recovering

May 30, 2008 | 17 Comments

My parents were released from the hospital in Kansas City on Wednesday. Adam drove ‘em back to Des Moines, and Ponzi and I decided that it would be best for me to travel back to Iowa for a week to help them back onto their feet (so to speak). I’ve been driving them around town [...]

Health is Sick

Jun 8, 2007 | 7 Comments

I definitely don’t agree with all of Michael Moore’s views, but he’s done the right thing in producing his new movie, “Sicko” – going directly after America’s unhealthy health care industry. At the press screening for “Sicko,” the Wall Street Journal reported that hardened reporters and critics wept. Even those who have been harsh to [...]