Citibank (South Dakota) NA Card Service Center Customer Service PO Box 6500 Sioux Falls, SD 57117-6500 Account No.: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX0117 Dear Customer Service Manager “R.M. Pick,†I am in receipt of your letter dated May 3, 2009, advising me that the credit limit has been reduced on the above-referenced account to $300 due to a decision …
Sorry. Gotta rave about college football for a moment — and rant once again about how the L.A. Times is always so quick to snarkily discount Alabama’s success. This morning columnist Chris Dufresne had this to say about Coach Nick Saban’s undefeated Crimson Tide being atop the national polls: Saban sympathizers and [Texas Tech Coach …
Yesterday my fellow LA Metblogs writer Jason Burns posted about a Burbank resident who wrote a column that ran in the Burbank Leader calling for the installation of posted speed limits and the police enforcement of them along the otherwise marvelous Chandler Bikeway because there are just too many overly entitled cyclists making it difficult …
Ah the joys of online commerce. I know mistakes happen, but maaaan! Like last night I got home to find my order from nashbar.com had arrived — the one I wrote about a couple days ago that was a compromise to me spending a load of green on a new bike I don’t need. So …
I knew as much, but a quick search of the Google shows me that I didn’t coin the term “indignorance,” which can best be defined by the statements of one angeleno named Graham A. Rowe in a letter to the editor he wrote to the Wall Street Journal, responding to that paper’s entirely slanted and …
A couple posts ago I pointed a hellbent finger at a couple insurance companies with the word “Farm” in their titles who just so happened to put out near-simultaneous TV advertisements that take unnecessary pokes at bike commuters. What I neglected to mention was that I wrote emails to State Farm and Farmers respetively taking …
The satellite radio scene got bumped to a bigger blip on the radar in large part because of the announcement this week that the Justice Department’s anti-trust busters have given the proposed $4.6-billion merger of Sirius and XM corporations a hearty thumbs-up. Chances are this doesn’t mean much to most people who receive their radiowaves …