Meet your savior, the Tax code!

Having been required to take Tax, reading 162 m first though was 'All those fraking bonuses are deductible?'

And the tax code may be our savior to really stick it to mostly government owned bail out toilet companies.

All we need is the IRS to start breaking out the whooping sticks and get to work.

UPDATE:
That's right, you mess with The Obama you get the IRS!

(That's supposed be based off of: You mess with the bull, and you get the horns.)

Reading Status Conference 1

I'm starting something new that I think will help me start blogging more regularly.

I read. A lot. Both books and reports and what not I pull from the Internet. So whenever I finish something I am going to write up a little something and post it. Most will probably be cross posted with my GoodReads profile too.

Interestingly... Linking to GoodReads reminds me of an article I read for work. It was published by Google and it was entitled 'Undermining Privacy with Social Networks'. I was hoping it would offer some insights into how to figure out more about people for my actual job. But it was more targeted towards how inadvertent slip ups can reveal more then you want to. One of the big things I saw, was this kind of cross-linking. My GoodReads has more personal info then my blog. (Which is largely irrelevant as no one reads it or comes from my facebook page!) But still, there's now more info out there for people to find about me and connect the dots. At least I dont have the problem of being a flower loving gun fanatic that didnt want my gun fanatic buddies to find out I liked flowers in the article.

Alright, enough of a detour. I finished 'The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices' a few weeks ago. I will say, upon getting this book I was VERY excited to read it. One of my thesis ideas for graduate school was going to be a multivariate analysis of what caused states to pursue nuclear power. One of the prime areas I was going to look at was security and presence of nuclear armed rivals. So this book dove-tailed nicely. However, I was largely disappointed. It is still a fascinating read, I felt the title was misleading it would be more appropriately titled 'The Nuclear Tipping Point: When would States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices'. A subtle difference, but important. Really, the individual chapters were very informative, and I felt the analysis on the subject was spot on. The only real flaw I can find with the book is that the chapters were written in a vacuum. For instance, the South Korea chapter made some bold claims about if South Korea obtained nukes, that it would jeopardize their relationship with Japan. I find that to be a bold claim. Especially since most of the factors cited as for South Korea rethinking their nuclear choices were the same as Japan. So it's impossible to cite South Korea as getting nukes without at least thinking Japan would be in the same boat. It's like the authors of the chapter didnt talk to one another. Which is alright, I just assumed that if you're participating in a project with another expert, you should really take that extra step. Overall, an easy, informative read that I'm glad is on my bookshelf for citation purposes.
*One side note. I really didnt write a thing in the margin of this book! I barely highlighted anything too! Strange for me.

Now I'm moving on to: 'Social Theory of International Politics' by Alexander Wednt. I just finished the first chapter. HOLY COW. It's going to be awesome. Assuming I can find time to read it...

Sometime this week I'm going to finish 'Female Suicide Bombers: Dying for Equality?' I've been at it for MONTHS! Although, that one may be broken out into a separate post.

Destroying the Constitution

To me, this, says more about what Bush thought of the Constitution then any sort of warrantless wiretapping, holding US citizens in jail with no charges for years and the like.

Into the shredder!

Really? Bypassing a CONGRESSIONALLY PASSED LAW because some fucking moron said that they could in a signing statement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd like to see the Memo that said they could do that. I'd get a good laugh.