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Last year I wrote an article for my tax blog on taxes and Daily Fantasy Sports. One of the conclusions I drew was that DFS is almost certainly gambling for tax purposes. One state has more-or-less come to the same conclusion: Michigan. Earlier this week Michigan's gambling commission stated that DFS was illegal in the state. As of this writing ( Read more... )

There's this thing called the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I bring this up because of two ( Read more... )

Wow -- I haven't posted here in seven months. But that string ends today as once more we see that cheaters always prosper ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I wrote, but let's start with the tsunami that happened last night. When Maryland elects a Republican governor:

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Yes, the current governor passed a tax on rainwater. If outgoing Maryland Governor O'Malley is really considering a presidential run, that little tax will come back to bite him. (Along with 39 other taxes he ( Read more... )

Climate science is settled. Those of us who are skeptics should be skewered at the stake, etc. Via Watts Up With That is a debate on climate science.

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I turned a year older this past week. I guess I'm getting old -- What's the date when we turn a year younger?


Cal 60, Wazzu 59. Wazzu's quarterback, Connor Halliday, set the record for ( Read more... )

What's a streamer? Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Yet another case of unintended consequences. And investigators want a stop on a larger plant until the impact ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in two months, but it's been very busy for me. The stupid FBAR stuff reared its ugly head back into online poker, and various other things hit my workload hard ( Read more... )

This should be a very good year for the GOP. The Benghazi scandal is flaring up again, with out-and-out-lying by the White House:


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Something not good for my waistline is coming soon to a location just 3.5 miles from my home: EggWorks (aka the Egg & I) is opening in Summerlin.