The most interesting thing doing taxes this year was discovering that the $2100 tax rebate for my new 2007 Civic Hybrid doesn't apply. If you make enough to have the Alternative Minimum Tax apply, apparently, Congress believes that you should be out driving a Hummer and doing your bit for the consumer economy rather than something silly like ( Read more... )

Geez, I can't beleive it's almost a year since I last posted here. I knew it had been too long but didn't remember it was that long ago.



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Another weekend, another foot through the barn loft floor ( Read more... )

Pill propelled into abortion debate
By Jill McGivering
BBC correspondent in Washington

The birth control pill revolutionised women's health - and grew to become one of the most popular forms of family planning. But it is now under attack from pro-life groups in the US.

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Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com

big book meme

inspired by myowngrrl. Here's the gist:

bold those you've read
italicize started-but-never-finished
add three of your own
(put in parentheses those you've seen the movie /TV mini-series /cartoon/ theatre production of)
underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet

this thing is huge.
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Definitely a busy time ( Read more... )

Does it mean the end of the world is too ;-)?

From boston.com:

Same-sex marriage

SJC: Civil unions are out
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that only full, equal marriage rights for gay couples -- rather than civil unions -- would meet the edict of its November decision. (AP, 11:28 a.m.)

View SJC opinion One ( Read more... )

Just got off the phone with my broker (buyer's broker) and it looks like it's highly likely there'll it be necessary to extend the date for us to sign the P&S for the house we're buying by another day or so. My lawyer faxed changes to the P&S agreement to the seller's broker last Thursday and left her a voice mail. (The sellers aren't using a ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)LowLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)Very HighLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)ModerateLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) ( Read more... )