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Excellent. A few notes responding to comments:
I would like to hear your proposed solution to the looming crisis that is the alternative minimum tax.
- I paid the amt a few years back. It meant I got less money back than i deserved because inflation adjustments weren't built into the amt policy when it was originally passed, like, in the 70's. Since I first heard of this problem a year or so after I was a victim of it, and no legislation has been passed yet to correct what seems a very simple, straightforward problem, it is obvious our elected officials don't care much for people who don't earn enough $$ to contribute significantly to re-election campaigns and need to be replaced or guillotined. Either way. In conclusion, it can maybe be eliminated altogether, I'm not sure.
That, and weekly reviews of WB network teen soap operas.
-The WB no longer exists, and the stately replacement CW network airs nothing but tightly written dramas about high school- young adult aged people co-existing with snappy dialogue and an impeccable sense of serendipity in ideal settings which closely resemble the daily lives of each of their viewers. It's like looking out the window with one of those devices that allows you to eavesdrop on conversations across the street; except in my neighborhood you can close all the windows and still hear the dialogue clearly.
Really, I just post about things which interest me. It's almost more about trying to remember things myself than trying to keep other people updated about me.
-Hmmmm... like slowly feeding your own life into a computer so that upon the unfortunate incident of your demise you may, at the last moment of sentience, transfer your consciousness into an instrument of artificial life already ripe with memories. Like the episode The Schizoid Man on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Check it out (Season 2, somewhere in the middle)
Incidentally, I'm usually a bit out of touch; you almost had me with your crack about Portland. :)
-Peter, this is Optimus Prime. Put down those games and listen to me.

Excellent, I'm always happy to serve...