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Posted on entry I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours ::: August 20, 2009, 02:46 AM:
Chris Quinones: Schedule SE, line 5 is a good place to find the 15.3% number, with the words "multiply by" in front of it.

California, part-time self employed:

a. 32.6%
b. 34.6% (out-of-pocket only; I can't get insurance, but I'm lucky)
Posted on entry Deep Thought ::: December 23, 2008, 01:42 AM:
Why settle for half measures ...

Eli Roth's Our Lady of Darkness
M. Night Shyamalan's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Roger Michell's Little Big
Posted on entry Strike plate ::: November 12, 2007, 06:51 PM:
All the folks who are so trustful of Piers Anthony for etymological information might want to look up "jot" in a dictionary. There's another letter it has a much more to do with than "t", with which it has naught.
Posted on entry Not so brilliant ::: December 13, 2006, 08:23 PM:
The so-called "alternative press" has been pushing this line for at least a year ... see e.g.
this sample from the New Times-owned SF Weekly.

Having made a bunch of money in the early 80s in a job whose title doesn't even exist in the marketplace any more (thanks Microsoft!) I have a hard time working up a great deal of sympathy.
Posted on entry The UbuWeb 365 Days Project ::: September 10, 2006, 10:37 PM:
Not to take anything away from either, but the 365 project existed before its association with UBUWEB, which existed before its association with WFMU.
Posted on entry Bog Psalms ::: July 28, 2006, 08:31 PM:
One reason Natl Geographic may have felt clarification was necessary was CNN using it as a leadin to an interview with rapturist cranks
Posted on entry Pass This On To All Your E-Mail Friends.... ::: March 20, 2006, 02:22 AM:
I think there were a fair number of "foreign fighters" on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Seems to me people generally think, now at least, that was a good thing ... at a minimum, it doesn't take a huge amount of effort to imagine their motivations in the absence of having homes "of their own" in Spain.
Posted on entry Leviticus 19:33-34 ::: September 19, 2005, 02:50 PM:
I keep catching myself on

The wrath of God struck New Orleans, and it spared us.

and remembering the evangelists who told us Katrina was god's judgment on NO.
Posted on entry Folksongs Are Your Friends ::: September 05, 2005, 04:10 PM:
Mark D., you've no worries on that score unless you and your sister share One True Love.
Posted on entry The Word Made Visible ::: August 29, 2005, 02:13 PM:
Job: R. Crumb

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