Newsletter: 2006
2006. -The year started out with a couple of Republicans outing CIA agent Valerie Plame. And the year ended with the Republicans outing themselves.
Scientists have decided that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore. Too small. I wish they would have decided that thirty-five years ago when I answered on my test: eight planets in our solar system. I guess I was ahead of my time.
Richard Hatch will be using all of his survivor skills while serving time for tax evasion. Alleged tax evader, Wesley Snipes may be following with his own sequel. Blade: San Quentin.
Speaking of taxes. Hollywood started the year with the Da Vinci Code based on the original novel of the same name. What isn’t known is that the book was originally going to be called the Da Vinci Tax Code. And the secret to be revealed was Jesus? filing status: married filing jointly.
Speaking of filing status. Alleged bigamist leader Warren Jeffries found himself on trial when one of his arranged marriages was discovered. The much older man involved filed, married filing jointly, and claimed the child credit because his wife was also a child.
Another reason to have your taxes done in Los Angeles: Scientists now say that pollution may be beneficial to provide shade when we are about to succumb to global warming. As Raymond Chandler should have written: L.A., 95 in the shade and what looks like shade turns out to be smog…(read more)