Pay your taxes already!

So, that makes three people in the Obama administration who've had tax problems so far. Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer withdrew their nominations and Timothy Giethner went on ahead to become our treasury secretary anyway.

Politicians and tax avoidance seems to be go hand-in-hand with Wall St. execs and incompetence (with benefits) and homosexual Republican guy-bashers.

Democrats have had a particularly tough time lately. What with Rangel, Blagovich and now the tax-cheating trio.

From my perspective -- everyone cheats on their taxes. However, if you are going to try to become the treasury secretary or nation's health czar, does it not behoove you to have your minions run a check and confirm that everything is a-ok?

In other words -- it is not the corruption but the incompetence that these people should be punished for.

World is a better place already!

The Saudis are "pardoning" rape victims! Where is the world going? Will they actually allow women to drive next or (gulp)...vote?

Just when you think this administration couldn't get any worse it just does -- proving the theory that there isn't really any limit to 'bad' but only to good. Bush's pardon of Libby would have been less sad if the only true candidate (Hillary) for president in the upcoming elections wasn't herself completely smeared in horribly wrong presidential pardons.

This story actually brings forth one of my favorite moral fables: Karn vs. Vibhishan.

Karn is an important, powerful and highly regarded character in Mahabharat who chooses loyalty over dharm (righteous path) and Vibhishan is an important, weak and largely forgotten character in Ramayan who chooses dharm over loyalty. Moral of the story is that being disloyal is generally viewed as being more unethical than supporting evil.

Does this apply to Bush? He is Karn? Would we have liked him better had he been Vibhishan?

I think the answer in this case is pretty simple: this does not apply to this tale because both Karn and Vibhishan are not the drivers of evil and Bush is. Their choices are merely to be loyal or to be evil. Bush's choices are different: Whether to be loyal or disloyal. Bush chose loyalty. In some sense this actually makes him a better man than had he let Libby take the hard fall for what is essentially his doing.

Where the Avocado?

Apparently a woman has sued Kraft foods because their Guacamole dip does not seem to have enough Avocado.

If this case goes to trial then it will exemplify the horribly broken justice system in this country.