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Jan 30, 2009
Zoon Politikon

GOP Stimulus Plan Would Raise Taxes

According to Dems on the House Ways and Means Committee who have crunched the numbers, the GOP plan, which would reduce income taxes across the board, would as a result shove millions over on to the Alternative Income Tax rate, which would be high...

Jan 29, 2009
Zoon Politikon

A Bipartisan Farce

I had a long conversation with my mom last night about the House Republicans’ unanimous rejection of the $825 billion stimulus package. She’s been harboring concerns that President Obama will roll over and sacrifice his beliefs to try and appease ...

Jan 27, 2009
Photography

Loss

Day 26 of 365.

Jan 26, 2009
Photography Seattle

Pike's Place Market

I hit up Pike’s Place Market yesterday with Helen and Wes for a brief and very chilly photowalk:

Jan 26, 2009
Photography Zoon Politikon

Photographic Retrospective on the Bush Years

Great article from Errol Morris on the NYT website highlighting the most meaningful photographs from Bush’s 8 years in office. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy ...

Jan 26, 2009
Random Funniness

Fucking, Austria and Crotch Crescent

Years ago, I was forwarded a link to a bug in the Mappoint team’s bug database. It was entitled “There is no Fucking Austria,” which argued that there was a serious deficiency in our mapping product, due to its lack of the best-named town in all o...