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Insure-and-Go: we're there for you until you need us

How's this for a ripoff? We've got travel insurance from Insure-and-Go, which covers (among other things), flight cancellations due to strikes. Last summer, we bought plane tickets from the UK to the US for Christmas holidays. Some time in October, BA's union threatened a strike. On Oct 26, we renewed our Insure-and-Go policy. Now they're saying that if BA goes on strike this Christmas, they won't cover us -- they say that because "we knew there was a possibility of a strike" on Oct 26, we have no strike insurance (even though we were insured by them when we bought the tickets, and even though we renewed our policy on time)....

Victor Jara, tortured and murdered Chilean folk singer, laid to rest a second time

Chileans often speak of "the first 9/11" -- referring to September 11, 1973, the day Augusto Pinochet ascended to power in a military coup. Within days, thousands of citizens were rounded up as enemies of the state and arrested. Many were executed. One of them was Victor Jara, a popular folk singer and advocate for the human rights of the common Chilean. He was arrested, tortured, and murdered just days after the coup. He was buried in a hurried, clandestine funeral, just before his wife escaped into exile. Over the weekend, his remains were laid to rest again, after a series of public events in which she and thousands of other survivors of Pinochet's brutal regime honored Victor Jara, and the countless "disappeared." Pinochet left power in 1990. We now know how Jara died, but we don't know who killed him -- or thousands of other Chileans who died in political executions. His widow Joan Jara, now 82, says all deserve justice: "There's a tendency to say, and even government leaders say this, that we're working for justice particularly in the emblematic cases," she said. "Victor is an emblematic case. I can have the hope that we can discover the truth and perhaps even achieve justice, that those responsible could be sentenced. But it's not right that so many other cases are left unresolved." Video: Jara performing one of his most famous songs, "Te Recuerdo Amanda." More online in Spanish: Fundación Víctor Jara....

The Real True Historic Origin of LOLCats?

To be fair, it doesn't predate Aloysius "Gorilla" Koford's classic 1912-1913 comic strip. But this image, from the March 1929 issue of Parents' magazine, could be the first captioned photograph version of the LOLcat. Unearthed by digital archivist Jason Scott, the photo was advertised as the perfect decoration for a child's nursery. Although, in that context, I personally find it a little nightmare inducing. I can haz yer soul for to nom? See the full vintage ad over on the Mental_Floss blog...