The Idea That If You Don’t Like

Can I Say That I Think It Should Be Against The Law For One State To Use Taxpayer Money To Try To Bribe Businesses In Another State To Move? Which Then Causes The Target State To Use Taxpayer Dollars To Try To Bribe The Businesses To Stay.

You Know, I Really Miss Sex Scandals. They're Generally Colorful. They Almost Never Mean Anything Over The Long Run. And While They're Going On, The People Who Actually Keep The Government Running Are Let Alone To Go About Their Business. Good Old Sex Scandals.

Now My Poor Hometown Is Being Castigated As The Center Of An Irs Scandal. Humble Workers At The Cincinnati Office Targeted Tea Party Groups And Other Conservative Organizations For Special Scrutiny When Those Groups Applied For Tax-exempt Status. There's No Conceivable Excuse For That. It Was Deeply, Deeply Wrong.

The High Point Was That The People Are Really Nice - Despite The Crazy Politics - And I Loved Being There. The Hardest Part Was Knowing Some Of The Things I Was Probably Going To Write About Texas Would Make Those Nice People Very Unhappy.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.