If you thought the federal income tax code was convoluted, well, you’re definitely not wrong. In fact, convoluted might be understating the problem. But the states’ tax codes are pretty lousy with hilarity, too. [This story] from The Atlantic starts out with a few tax breaks that are worth checking out. Apparently, in Alabama, you [...]
Mother Jones says “Study: All-White Juries More Likely To Convict Black Defendants” – citing researchers from Duke University: The bad news is that, according to the study, which looked at 700 cases between 2000 and 2010, all-white juries are significantly more likely to convict black defendants than white ones. The good news is that a [...]
Continuing on the SOPA thing, Wil Wheaton makes fun of the MPAA like I did. But he does it better. When you complain that opponents didn’t “come to the table to find solutions”, do you mean that we didn’t give NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS to congress like the MPAA? Or do you mean that we didn’t [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Wikipedia is planning to follow-through on its promise to shut itself down for a day in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against [...]