Ted Frank

As the coronavirus crisis shuts down the economy and calls come for bailouts to save businesses that have seen their revenues plummet, complaints across the political spectrum come about bailouts for businesses that have engaged in stock buybacks. For example, Rep. Katie Porter, a California Democrat, complained that United Airlines shouldn’t seek congressional support because it spent $3 billion on buybacks, and Sen.

TSA head John Pistole defends the utter waste of his agency by noting that it no longer asks people over the age of 75 to remove their shoes when going through screening. This is utter nonsense. If screening shoes is a necessary step to preventing terrorism, then a 75-year-old's shoes are no less of a risk to security than a 74-year-old's shoes. One thus correctly concludes that there is no reason for any passengers to be removing their shoes in the first place.

Welcome LA Weekly readers; this website is mentioned and I am quoted in a less-than-entirely-coherent story about mold litigation in this week’s LA Weekly. The story focuses on Sharon Kramer, who has given up a full-time career to pound the drums over her fight with her insurer alleging mold harms after a remediation; and an unfortunate lawsuit brought by scientist Bruce Kelman against Kramer.