August 2012
Baskerville. And the font with the least authority? Take a wild guess.
Why don’t people worry more about The Weather? You should be afraid of that shit all the time! It can kill you any time it wants, that goddamn Derecho can snap a tree in half and bonk you on the head or, worse, bonk your car on the head while you are driving it, exclamation point. Or drown you with a flash flood. Weather can shoot a lightning bolt at you while you are busy trying not to get wet with your puny umbrella. A Bolt of Lightning! Out of the sky! For you! Thats God-stuff, man. Except you don’t have to Believe it. It will Electrocute you for just standing around minding your own business. Respect!
Business owners are just like you and me … they often have very wrong and misguided ideas about how taxes work, says Moneybox writer Matthew Yglesias:
Under Obama’s plan, households with taxable incomes above $250,000 will pay higher taxes, which the GOP is furious about, especially citing the dire impact on small business owners.
What’s striking about this whole debate is how the very business owners and politicians who seem certain that tax shifts will radically harm the economy are bizarrely uninformed about how the tax code actually works. In particular, they don’t appear to understand what marginal tax rates and tax brackets actually are.
As even House Speaker John Boehner has been known to admit, only 3 percent of small firm proprietors would be affected by these higher taxes, precisely because what’s taxed is profits, not gross revenue.
Matthew Yglesias: Tax Ignoramuses
Also: the Papa John’s guy is kind of a hack.
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed in a Martian crater early this morning. Below is an artist’s rendition of the landing. So cool.
OPINION: If Kant Were a New York Cyclist
My conduct on the road may be illegal, but I believe it is ethical.