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Brilliant, and possibly the best thing the pro-union side could use as an ad: Link: http://youtu.be/-YkLPxQp_y0 by … Continue reading
Category Archives: News and politics
Several segments of the U.S. news media have run reports to the effect that the internationally popular Hello Kitty character is not a cat but a little girl. But the company behind Hello Kitty, Sanrio, has clarified that Hello Kitty … Continue reading
In journalism there is supposed to be a “Chinese wall” separating “church and state” — the news and business sides of a news outlet (though which is church and which is state probably depends on your point of view), but … Continue reading
No, I don’t mean The Conjuring (reviewed in the previous post); I mean yet another political ad featuring somebody complaining about the Affordable Care Act who actually turns out to have benefited from it. An article by Eli Stokols at … Continue reading
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive by … Continue reading
John Green has a gift for presenting a subject succinctly, as in the video below that runs under four minutes. Ostensibly talking to his brother Hank, a very successful entrepreneur, he talks very informatively about arguments for and against raising … Continue reading
Last month Queen Elizabeth II toured the Game of Thrones production facility in Northern Ireland and among other things saw the notorious Iron Throne. She declined to sit, but she did give it a careful look, as you can see … Continue reading
In passing in a previous post I erroneously said that investment income is free of Medicare tax in the U.S. As I should have remembered, that’s no longer true for high income people (such as single taxpayers making over $200,000 … Continue reading
I like Oliver’s stuff because he’s informative as well as funny: Link: http://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno A couple more points on the estate tax: As Oliver points out, only a microscopic proportion of estates — a mere 14 out of every 10,000 — … Continue reading
According to this news report from some kids in Utah, it’s winter in Canada (it’s probably always winter in Canada), and unfortunately, a major snow tornado is apparently threatening the entire country, so if you’re anywhere in Canada, you should … Continue reading