There have been times in my marriage when I’ve been so fed up with the unfair division of labor in my home that I have mentally divided up the furniture about who would get what in the inevitable divorce. These black moments – he can have that stupid “king’s chair” in front of the TV, I’ll take my grandmother’s botanical prints he hates – usually came when I was wiping up the soup or sauce or dressing that someone had put in the fridge without a lid that exploded all over the shelves, while he watched TV in said chair. Read More...
The head of a Fairfax County police union called for a boycott of a popular pumpkin patch because a “Black Lives Matter” sign was displayed in the window of a home nearby.
Brad Carruthers, president of Fairfax Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 77, said he would not patronize Centreville’s Cox Farms and urged others to do the same in a lengthy message posted on the union's Facebook page on Tuesday. Carruthers has since removed the post, writing that its intent was misrepresented and some of the dozens of angry comments that were left on it were inflammatory. Read More...
Explore More Walmart and Energizer were ordered by a US judge to face lawsuits by consumers and retailers accusing them of violating antitrust law by conspiring to raise prices of batteries.
In a decision on Friday, US District Judge P. Casey Pitts said plaintiffs in the three proposed class actions plausibly alleged that in exchange for preferred treatment at its stores, Walmart pressured Energizer to inflate wholesale battery prices and keep other retailers from undercutting it on price. Read More...