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Morning Cup of Links: Dumb Taxes
by Miss Cellania - April 8, 2009 - 4:25 AM
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Wisdom is way different from intelligence or education. Now scientists think they may have found the part of the brain where wisdom lives.
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In honor of the new baseball season, here are the worst opening pitches ever. Don’t quit your day job!
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You may be shocked at this page from a children’s book of the 70s, but this sort of thing was par for the course. Some of us just refused to go by the book.
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The Smithsonian By The Numbers. The most awesome collection of museums that you can get in for free!
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A significant number of kids experiment with a vegetarian diet as a way to mask an eating disorder. After all, vegetarianism is not only acceptable, it’s socially conscious. (via My 2 Second Shelf Life)
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The Top Ten Dumbest Taxes in History. Dumb or not, they all cost us real money.
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6 Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs. When they look this good, you don’t want to hide them!

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Comments (6)

  1. re: The 70s kid’s book – hoo boy, am I glad those days are over! Yes, I too grew up with: Dick goes to the rocket launch with Dad. Jane stays home and bakes a cake with Mom. It sucked being a girl – my brother got to go sledding after Christmas. I got to wash the dishes for all the guests! Whenever my oldest girl says “that’s a boy thing” I am lightning quick to disabuse her of that notion! Girlz Kick Ass!

    posted by Marion on 4-8-2009 at 10:12 am

  2. Society began its slide downwards upon women gaining the right to vote. It’s a fact. look it up in Wikipedia.

    As to vegetarians- just another reasonthey are mentally dented.

    posted by Hurricane on 4-8-2009 at 12:03 pm

  3. That article on young vegeratrians reads as pointedly biased – the author is obviously a omnivore and possibly a part-time chicken farmer. Phrases like “…the white meat of defenseless chickens…” and “…the flesh of those adorable animals known as fish…” are so obviously sarcastic as to cast a disticnt shadow of bias – I have to wonder how it got past an editor. Oh well, Time is one of those toilet magazines so maybe they don’t give a crap (pun most definetley intended).
    As a veg that started at the tender age of 15 I take offense at this article.

    posted by Keeker on 4-8-2009 at 12:21 pm

  4. Speaking of dumb taxes, I now I get to pay $1.01 per pack of cigarettes for the 4 million kids with no health insurance.

    It’s nice to know that that Republicans couldn’t see their way clear to up taxes by about a penny to cover these kids.
    Of course, the Democrats, the guys who are so very worried about second-hand smoke couldn’t find some other group to tax other than those dastardly smokers.

    Next time you see someone smoking, you ought to thank them for doing what the non-smokers would not.

    It’s true, I’m smoking for the kids now; just when I was ready to quit.

    posted by Dave on 4-8-2009 at 2:09 pm

  5. I believe that book is called “I’m Glad I’m A Boy, I’m Glad I’m A Girl”, I have to read it for class next week. It makes me SO glad I am from the millennial generation.

    posted by Megan on 4-8-2009 at 3:17 pm

  6. So Peter the Great’s beard tax was “dumb”? Just because it was focused on an unusual target does not mean it was foolish; this tax was part of his efforts to destabilize the power of the boyars, or Russian nobles, and thereby break down the ridged class system of Russia, in the hopes of allowing reform and westernization…you know, that little thing that would have improved the lives of millions of peasants?

    I understand that exaggeration is the core of humor, but com’on…there are plenty of legitimate targets out there

    posted by disgruntled on 4-8-2009 at 8:24 pm

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