May 11, 2015

My White Privilege

I just figured out my "white privilege."  My white privilege is that nobody has ever told me I'm a victim.  As a white man, nobody has ever told me that my personal problems and inevitable misfortunes -- of which I...

April 16, 2014

Can't the IRS get its story straight?

I had a difficult recent experience with the IRS. In Fall of last year (September, 2013, I believe), I received a letter from the IRS claiming that I had underpaid on my 2009 tax filing, and that therefore I owed an additional amount (something like ...