Here you go, bartender:
http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=98137,00…
I'll take that hundred grand in a non-greedy way. Ten-grand per month, if you please. Actually, you can short-change me a penny per payment as I'm only allowed to bring $9,999.99 over the border at any given time. Thanks in advance. — September 2, 2010 2:53 a.m.
Anthem Blue Cross Regifts Ben Hueso
@ #3: Nice spam job! Perfect use of bad grammar and non-capitalization. I give it a 7.8 but then again I'm probably the Russian judge. I bet Denver hates you: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%2…— September 3, 2010 2:45 a.m.
Prop 8
"...can look at the issue and come to a switch in his or her views, then anyone can." Yep, another good point. I used to be very pro death penalty and now I am completely opposed to it. We do have the opportunity to re-evaluate our views consistently, and I think that we should. I still hate lima beans though. Hate them, passionately, hate. Chalky bastards.— September 2, 2010 8:02 p.m.
Prop 8
"What the gay movement is doing is trying to create a parallel universe in which marriage, an institution as old as time, is suddenly redefined to fit their political agenda." Altius, I'm pretty sure that most of them just want the opportunity to marry. No idea what their political agenda would be. Most people with a political agenda tend to wish to convert people with a different agenda over onto their side. I can't say that I've ever met a gay or lesbian that ever tried to convince me to be gay or lesbian.— September 2, 2010 7:33 p.m.
How do you personally benefit through taxes?
Here you go, bartender: http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=98137,00… I'll take that hundred grand in a non-greedy way. Ten-grand per month, if you please. Actually, you can short-change me a penny per payment as I'm only allowed to bring $9,999.99 over the border at any given time. Thanks in advance.— September 2, 2010 2:53 a.m.
Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky"
Oh, my stuff wasn't even THIS entertaining, it was all doom and gloom. There were very few exceptions. I have some of that stuff here, somewhere, and hopefully the house will catch on fire before I can get to it ;)— September 1, 2010 9:18 p.m.
The Point of Why I Ride a Bicycle
Bug-eyed gal, shades of Susan Sarandon. I read most of Wambaugh's books, long before they made movies out of them. I never learned that we attended the same college until years later. A hundred bucks says that college never taught him a damned thing about writing. College sucks that way ;)— September 1, 2010 9:13 p.m.
The Point of Why I Ride a Bicycle
Had no idea that Wambaugh lives in Point Loma. By complete coincidence, we attended the same college. It's so interesting to see your northern perspective of Downtown as compared to something I have looked north toward for all of these years.— September 1, 2010 8:36 p.m.
Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky"
Rumor has it that this piece makes perfect sense under the influence of LSD ;) The poem was meant as satire, according to the author, in providing a measuring stick where poets may compare their own writings against what a poet should never do. Good job, Reader.— September 1, 2010 7:46 p.m.
Letters
I don't know whether to be sentimentally delighted or digitally frightened that someone actually sent a letter to the Reader via facsimile machine. I reckon the Morse telegraph was in a state of disrepair...— September 1, 2010 5:17 p.m.
Notes From A Second-Story Window
Ms. Grant: Thanks, and I have yet to send the email, I want to make sure that things haven't changed this evening when Anna logs in. If they still aren't giving her quizzes, I'll send that letter tonight. Blue: The funny thing is I can remember back a couple of decades ago when I first entered Mexico on business, I was scared to death. I felt so relieved once I entered back on U.S. soil. It's funny what twenty years does :) Nan: Gracias :) It's so funny when I look at the Mexican street dogs, there is absolutely no way anyone could guess at which breeds are mixed in most of the time. I feel that way about my own heritage, I have no idea about my European mix, only my American Indian percentage is not a mystery. John: Thank you. I would love to write a large piece on my failure to procure a passport (I tried, they won't give me one), but the government side of the equation will not grant me so much as a hint of an explanation as to how they are told to handle people like you and me. I need their side of things or the article will appear one-sided, and likely uninteresting.— September 1, 2010 5:04 p.m.