Archive for June, 2008
Loose dogs can cause a tight squeeze from a dog bite lawyer
When a dog is your dog, you’ve got to love it. Those eyes. That face. That slobber. But when it’s someone else’s dog, you might wind up being a dog-hater — and for good reason: dog bites.
Though many cities, including Houston, have laws requiring that dogs be confined or leashed, many people routinely disregard them. [...]
Drunk driving is an indulgence that can’t be indulged
We all like to indulge, whether it’s eating too much popcorn at the movies or snoozing away too much of a Saturday morning in bed. But not all indulgences are so innocent.
How much is drinking indulgence worth? Is it worth snuffing out a family’s lives? Is it worth spending the rest of your life behind [...]
Asbestos shows where there’s fiber, there’s fire
Asbestos is all around us. But that doesn’t mean it’s killing us. You may have asbestos-laced insulation in your attic, yet as long as that insulation isn’t disturbed, you run little risk of inhaling its potentially deadly asbestos fibers, which can lead to cancer.
Sadly, for many workers asbestos exposure and asbestos poisoning are a daily [...]
Attack of the Tainted Tomatoes
SPLAT!
Overripe, under ripe or just right, tomatoes can make you as sick as a dog.
I speak from experience. Last week my husband was apparently the target of a salmonella tainted tomato like more than 500 people in the United States this summer. The encounter made him a “frequent flyer” to the loo in the middle [...]
You say tomato, I say salmonella
Raw red tomatoes have consumers seeing red. Pitifully pained people in several states, including Texas, continue to suffer food poisoning via tomatoes tainted with salmonella, a bacteria which can cause diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal pain. You know, like reading your income tax statement.
In other words, your price for munching a juicy red tomato [...]
Even a car seat may not be enough protection
The tragic news of an infant death in a stalled car on the Galveston Causeway Sunday lends a sobering reminder that simply doing the right thing by buying and using protective car seats may not always be enough. Car seat safety is no guarantee of survival.
Child safety seats are far more common today, now that [...]
SUV drivers need to give it up
Some gun owners ascribe to the fierce philosophy that you can “take my guns when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.” Some SUV owners feel the same way about the keys to their bulky gas guzzlers – despite skyrocketing fuel prices which make them an economic dry well, not to mention ecological and [...]
