April, 2021 archive
Civic Duty 0
I mailed my state and federal tax payments today, certified return receipt because I want to know that they got there.
The clerk at the post office was most affable. Indeed, I had to admonish her, “Why are you having so much fun on the job? Don’t you think there is a reason they call it ‘work’?”
As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., once said, “I like paying taxes. They buy me civilization.”
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Des Moines Register, an immigrant from Viet Nam who came here at the age of nine muses on her American experience. Here’s a bit:
The Court’s Belay 0
A federal judge belays Donald Trump’s NDAs.
Goldman’s Sacks, Humpty-Dumpty Dept. 0
At Goldman Sachs, words mean what they want them to mean.