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Under the common-law doctrine of respondeat superior, the employer is liable for the injuries caused by an employee who is working within the scope of his employment relationship. The Restatement (Second) of Torts gives few exceptions to the rule, including independent contractor status. For...

Really? You mean like when President Reagan attended a "summit meeting" in Williamsburg on Memorial Day in 1983, while Deputy Secretary of Defense W. Paul Thayer laid a wreath at Arlington Cemetery? That tradition? Or the one in 1992, George H.W. Bush attended a Memorial Day ceremony in...

Clearly, in the past Leo has been a huge supporter of the International Red Cross, and he will no longer be doing so. It's the only way out. :D But hey, it's an easy mistake to make, confusing the two. Most people probably think the International Red Cross is the primary group, and the...

In 1978 I lost everything in an apartment building fire, 80 units, the entire building. It was pretty bad (Cincinnati-Dayton Road at I-75 in Pisgah, in West Chester). The American Red Cross provided me and the others each with cash and serious discounts at several furniture and department...

I missed it. What, exactly did Obama do?

Keep in mind that you do have to have a decent antenna, mounted on the roof of the truck of van is preferred, but if you're in close enough one inside the can might be OK. Also, the USB and other external receivers use the laptop's CPU to render the video, so you need a computer with a little...

They're going after prepackaged foods that use salt as a flavor enhancer in lieu of actual flavor. In order for bacon to even be bacon, a certain amount of salt (brine or dry packaging) must be used, otherwise it won't cure. It'll just rot, instead. For most meats, 15% to 20% salt...

There's no need to go out of you way to look as nasty as possible, but by and large it really is all about the freight. As a customer, whether it's the shipper, consignee or a third party, you have freight that needs to be moved from Point A to Point B, and you want it moved on time, safely, in...

It may have been reported as the primary cause, but the blowout preventer is supposed to the be mechanism of last report to smother a blowout. The primary cause was a gas pocket blowout which exploded. Before cementing a well like that, a series of light and heavy fluids (lighter and heavier...

Dude is a city slicker, usually urban Easterner, who is obsessive about his clothing and appearance. Dood, (spelled d00d by the 3l33t) is often pronounced doooooooooood by stoners and surfers and Keanu Reeves, and is a euphemism for "man" or "friend" depending on the context, and was largely...

There are just too many jokes here for me to even respond. OMG. This entire article reads like a SNL skit. Except the article keeps getting funnier and funnier. WrapMC? Are you kiddin' me? Yo, yo, yo! Check it out! When I'm gettin' wiff my lady and we're bumpin' bumpin' ugly Don't want no...

Federalize the spill and perform cleanup immediately? There's nothing to clean up, since it's still being spilled. There are a bazillion ideas on how to fix this, most of them just stoopid, all of them untried on a spill of this kind. Regardless of any potential effectiveness, nothing will do...

Sure. Just go to Internet Connections and set up a new dialup connection, selecting the broadband modem as the modem. No username or password needed. The phone number you use, I think, depends on which type of phone you use. For most devices, try: *99***1# For Blackberries: *99***2# For...

I have a USB aircard, plugged into a Belkin 4-port USB hub that's out of the way with no chance of it snapping off in the USB port. I don't use the VZ Access Manager much, since it's a resource hog and slows down the system, especially when there are a few dozen connections going on. Instead...

"Brownie" seems a little, uhm, lame and tiresome to me also, but I'm more interested in what someone might think an adequate governmental response would be to the oil spill. Also, just to toss it out there, I wonder how many illegal aliens have invaded Arizona since Obama took office, versus...

Of course, argumentum ad hominem is the logical fallacy of attempting to undermine a speaker's argument by attacking the speaker (or the source of the speaker's material) instead of addressing the argument. A couple of cans of grits whizzing by the noggin' is certainly one way to do it. ("You...

Keith Olbermann is really just one cheek, and Glenn Beck is the other. As for Lewis Black, when it comes to political satire, he should be taken very seriously.

A guy goes to a psychiatrist. "Doctor, sometimes I feel like a wigwam, sometimes I feel like a tee-pee. I'm a wigwam! I'm a tee-pee!" The doctor says, "You're too tense." The preceding message has been brought to you by the Tornado Alley Oklahoma Mobile Home Owner's Association, in...

Yeah, boy, do I ever. I once had several cans of these thrown at me.

What's your stand on green eggs and ham? Perhaps, but, intentionally or not, doing it here in the General Expediting Forum instead of the Soapbox comes off as one of the more blatant personal attacks on a Forum Member that I've seen. Yeah, neutral topics are always so riveting and exciting...