Month: July 2006

And who’s bright idea was that?

Reference:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/business/23tax.html?ex=1154404800&en=882e147ffb6ed922&ei=5070&emc=eta1

So the IRS is cutting half of the tax lawyers who audit the wealthy. Good idea? I don’t think so.

I’ll admit that not being one of the wealthy, I do perhaps have a opinion colored by perspective and jealousy, but setting that aside, does it make sense to you to have a policy that clearly has the support of at least a simple majority of the population, and then go out of your way to make it impossible to police simply as a way of disregarding it? It strikes me that those most likely to be impacted and therefore the most likely to object are also those with the political currency (let’s face it, in a capitalist society [which I don’t inherently object to], economic currency _is_ political currency) to find ways to mitigate any possible impact.

Something in this screams conflict of interest, of the sort that got Abramoff in trouble…

$2 each….

Babylon 5 has now made its way onto the iTunes store. Season one so far, but others are on their way. As someone who (he admits sheepishly) has only seen a handful of episodes, this is a dangerous thing.

On an unrelated note, people who do technical work are frequently called technicians, but very few people who do medical work are called medicians…..

Where is the accountability?

Came across http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4056228.html today.

So if the Justice Department is investigating Bush (ok, not him per se, but certainly his administration, and possibly him as part of it), and he has the power to deny access to the investigators, who has the power to hold him accountable? And I bring this up not only because I question our current president regularly, but because what’s to stop any president from doing this, regardless of ideology?