Oh, MAN. That's fabulous. I salute your cousin, Jen. If I had $200 lying around that I didn't need, I would totally spend it getting plowed and ranting about Cleveland news archors. I, too, harbor an insane hatred for them, but don't tell the local fuzz, or they'll cart me off. Jewish vikings ... phew ... "Look, I'm sorry, Thor, normally I'd be fine with pillaging and general revelry, but it's Yom Kippur, so I'm just gonna hang out here on the ship and fast. And for chrissakes, tell Vlad to quit yoinking all the matza." So I'm sitting here listening to NPR's "Rewind" (downloadable from their web site), and of course last week's topic was all about taxes. The guests were all discussing a tax proposal wherein tax credits would be doubled for married folks and children, and how that was a sort of frightening form of social manipulation -- "Get married! Have kids! Maintain the status quo!" And then they went off on a tangent about how single people should work to enact more single-specific tax deducations: The "I Have To Eat My Own Cooking" Deduction I would also suggest the following: The "I Have to Deal With Familial Inquisitions Into My Love Life on an Regular Basis" Deduction
The "My Bookshelves Are Constructed of Cement Blocks and 2 x 4s" Deduction
The "My Place is Really Messy Because No One Ever Sees It But If I Have a Date I Have to Clean Up, Resulting in Lower Back Pain" Deduction
The "I'm So Desperate for a Tax Refund that I Actually Considered Claiming My Cats as Dependents" Deduction
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