Peter's Place

I just wrote this to my supposed best friend: We met almost two years ago and have been through a lot together. However, our friendship cannot continue. You have destroyed any and all trust that I had in you by your actions. If I speak to you about this, instead of writing, I will be using words that you do not want to hear – language that you, or any person of your race, would want to hear. That is how upset I am. So instead, I leave you with this letter. It does not matter how much you took, or what you took. It matters, simply, that you took, without asking and without informing me (after the fact), period . And you didn’t take just once, or twice, or thrice—you took multiple times. After I confronted you about it and left for my mother’s, you continued to take. That’s all that matters. I wish you well; I do not wish you any ill will. I will try to help you when I can, but we are and can only be acquaintances now. I don’t know if you’ll ever repay me the money that yo...

AS OF MAY 2004—the last time this analysis was conducted, six years ago—there were ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY-EIGHT FEDERAL LAWS where martial status is a factor in determining rights , benefits , responsibilities , obligations , protections , etc. In the past ten years alone, the IRS code ( Title 26 of the United States Code ) has grown by some 35,000 page or approximately 50% (thanks to Dorian Davis for this video factoid); if we presume that the IRS code grew 3,500 pages per year over the past ten years (using simple math--not trying to do complicate things), then we can say that it grew 21,000 pages over the past six years. In those 21,000 pages, how much would you like to bet that there are some new laws where marital status is a factor—and that's just in the IRS code, which constitutes only a portion of the United States Code surveyed to determine the number of laws where marital status is a factor. How does this affect the every day individual—"Joe Sch...