Tennessee passed a law a couple years ago to extortcollect use taxes from Amazon.com due to sales to Tennessee residents. I got my statement for 2011 the other day, and thus was pointed to the state website to settle the matter.

https://apps.tn.gov/usetax

How much do I owe? 8¢. And I ( Read more... )

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( The Sino-American War Is Here--In First-Person Shooter Form )

( Rileys Complaint )

...You're listening to the local public radio station, and there's a clarinet quartet on--and you want them to play "Freebird"!

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of September 8, 2011The beauty contests in Saudi Arabia don't judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. A recent winner, Aya Ali al-Mulla, was crowned "Queen of Beautiful Morals" without ever revealing the face and form shrouded beneath her black head-to-toe garment. Instead, her excellence emerged during ( Read more... )

PBS World just re-ran a special from four years back about the theme of the American Dream and famous novels that explored it in differing fashions: The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Street, Seize The Day and a few others. I watched it and began having thoughts related to my own life and work ( Read more... )