Look into the Future! 8pm on 8/8/2008 has already come and gone in Beijing, so the Olympic’s opening ceremony is already over. But expect to see officials booting migrant laborers and some sweet dances celebrating national conformity.
Don’t look over here! While all eyes are on the Olympics’ fireworks, (including terrorists’) Russia invades Georgia.
Or here! McCain returns $50,000 from a donor with federal defense contacts.
Concrete Change: Oregon starts to power highway lights with solar panels.
Concrete Problems: The pro-prison initiatives on the Oregon ballot would cost the state $1.3 billion to $2.2 billion.
All of the costs associated with the pro-prison / mandatory minimum initiatives shall henceforth be called “The Kevin Mannix Tax.” The legislature should just impose a one time $500 per person tax across the board to get that billion dollars. And for once, let’s be clear who is responsible for the tax increase.
Down at the bottom of the tax forms they can insert a an instruction that says: “Take your amount owed amount and add $500 to pay for Kevin Mannix’s batshit crazy measures.”
Let’s practice using it in some sentences:
“Man, I would have gotten a nice rebate this year, if it wasn’t for the Kevin Mannix Tax.”
“I guess I don’t mind paying the Kevin Mannix tax if it means my daughter can have a public school.”
“Goddamn Kevin Mannix tax. There goes Christmas.”
Well, we should give the guy a nickname, lest we ruin Joe Mannix’s good name by association.