Renter’s Insurance

Last weekend, I took my iPadAir to a computer repair place to get advice on how to upload proof of my having obtained my own renter’s insurance to a website of my landlord’s. If a tenant doesn’t get his own, apartment management gets it for him, and adds $17 per month to his rent, in contrast to the $90 per year which I’m now paying to State Farm. It used to be that they would accept a fax or email from the local insurance agent, but now everything has to be computerized.

Anyway, here’s the procedure, which may be useful to me next year: Get insurance web page from State Farm, and send as email, which will cause the document to become an attachment in the email. Save that PDF attachment to iPadAir. Get into apartment management website, and enter PDF into space near bottom. Submit.

Thoughts on Our Prospective Veep

A week and a half ago, I wrote, “[I]t is hard to escape the conclusion that Mr. Vance has joined what he knows to be the wrong side in service to his political ambitions.” I ought to clarify this. People can certainly disagree on policy questions, and despite my disagreements with him, I do not accuse J.D. Vance of being knowingly in the wrong when he praises Lina Khan’s work at the Federal Trade Commission, for example, or advocates “nationalist conservative” economic policies.

I do find it hard to see how a man of some intelligence, who saw through Trump and said so back in 2016, can sincerely believe that Donald Trump is fit to be president, and sing his praises in good faith. J.D. Vance, a Marine and Senator who has presumably taken oath to support the Constitution, has said that he would have done, or would do, what Mike Pence refused to do, and use his position as Vice President to steal an election for Trump. Trump himself recently told a gathering of his supporters that if they elected him, they would never have to vote again.

Fellow citizens, we have been warned.