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Posts Tagged America

Glorious Freedom!

Finally, I can utter the words “I don’t believe in this God character” or “I sure do disapprove of the way God handled that situation; he should be ashamed of himself” in Our Fair Commonwealth without fear of a year’s imprisonment and/or forfeiture of five hundred bucks. The Globe says so.
Also, I can be [...]


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not the smallest room I’ve ever been in.
A photo I took of Chicago’s Union Station two Decemberweens ago was included in the latest edition of Schmap, an interactive city guide. They asked if I would let them consider it for submission in the guide, and since I really had no reason not to, I [...]


Where for art thou, FiOS?

Not in Dot, that’s for sure. But soon, FiOS will be available in some place in Massachusetts called “Monroe” which has a population of 93. Ninety fucking three.
I bet a lot of them sign up! Whoooooo doggie!
Other WMass metropolises where Verizon will be deploying include New Ashford (pop. 247), Rowe (351), Florida (676), [...]


Mass. Health Insurance Sucks

In a not horribly surprising move, the subsidized health care plan that is supposed to be the cheap way into health insurance for the less fortunate is about to get a hell of a lot more expensive just months after the date passed by which everyone in Massachusetts was forced to have health insurance or [...]


to my Congressman immediately upon hearing of the Senate passing S. 2248

Dear Mr. Lynch,
I read this morning that the Senate passed S. 2248, which among other things would grant immunity to telecommunications companies that were complicit in illegal surveillance activity against Americans.
I can honestly say that I’ve never been more ashamed to be an American.
Please, Mr. Lynch, I beg of you to do everything you can [...]


Dumbachusetts Part II

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the stupidity of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue listing web sites on their Free File Alliance page that state in plain English that they charge for the filing of a Massachusetts income tax return. Some anonymous peon at the DOR responded to me with a useless non-answer [...]


Primary Day

It’s primary day here in Massachusetts.  As many of you know, I fully support Ron Paul in this presidential election cycle, and I encourage you to vote for him in today’s primary.  Vote vote vote!
If you’re in Massachusetts and don’t know where to vote, the state Elections Division has set up a handy polling place finder.


Dumbachusetts

It’s tax time again, and so I started looking at the various options available for free e-filing of my tax returns. (I will withhold any rants regarding the inanity of the IRS protecting the pay-to-file monopoly of H&R Block, Intuit, et al when they really want everyone to e-file because it saves everyone a [...]


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