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This is US tax time I propose a special honor for the Turbotax company. Why? You ask. Well, American tax is arcane, complicated, and more than any other, incomprehensible. Whenever I begin to feel over-confident and self-assured I think of Federal tax and feel once again incompetent and not very bright. For thirteen years we …
Saint Patrick was an Englishman who went to Ireland to try to cut down the alcoholic consumption of the Irish, and to put a stop to the ridiculous line dancing that was breaking out there. He considered himself a failure in life.
In 1954 J. B Priestley coined the word admass: “the creation of the mass mind, the mass man.” Admass man was blinded by the dazzling array of consumer goods offered by the consumer society, his senses dulled by the bland rapidity of modern communications and the pervasive pressure of advertising; he lived, Priestley thought, in …
“[Among students] the image of the USA is not very favourable. It is the image of a basically adolescent, materialistic, slightly hysterical society, run primarily by Big Brother, a society exerting great pressure for conformity with little real freedom of thought, a society which can easily run amok or behave in an unpredictable way. Its …
What is the point? What is the point of having had a little luck in your life? What is the point of having been in the right place at the right time, or simply being incredibly talented, if you cannot enjoy the money, share it, and have a good time with it storing up good …
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