Every April I’m called upon to account for how I spent the previous year; how I spent taking care of my dependents, how I spent paying off my mortgage, and how I spent on a whole laundry list of other tax-deductible items. Fortunately, in the interest of making this as difficult as possible, the United [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘government’
01/03/2009
We Didn’t Choose to be Bureaucrats
In terms of sheer tonnage, the United States it the world’s leading producer of weapons-grade bureaucracy. Nothing officially happens in this country until it’s been recorded on a complicated and mysteriously-named form, approved, counter-signed, and carried to its final resting place in a dusty filing cabinet. It’s not our fault, though. After [...]
05/21/2008
Division of Motor Violence
When I got a note in the mail saying I needed to renew my driver’s license, I wasn’t worried. After all, I’ve been driving since I was sixteen. All I had to do was take a quick written exam, get a bad picture taken, and I’d be done. Right?
When I got to the DMV, my [...]
03/03/2008
Spin Control
I pity the Presidential candidates. It’s not easy being them.
For starters, they live on the road twenty-four-seven. A life of travel sounds exciting until you realize that most of the time they are ending up in desolate, barely civilized places like East Armpit, New Jersey, Rattlesnake Acres, Nevada, and Kansas City. (Special [...]
