Three stories appeared in a row in NuttyNewsToday.com that are highly germane to the ePC Chronicles. Bon appétit...... Posted By Staff
Date: April 18th, 2011
Nutty News Houston, Texas - A Texas man says there was a significant hole in the free prize he won at an Astros game. On fan appreciation day, Bob Choate won 315 coupons from a local donut shop. Choate, a donut fan, as well as a baseball fan, was thrilled. Until, says the Houston Chronicle, he got a letter informing him he owed the IRS $237 in taxes for his “free prize.” According to the 1099 form Choate received, his 315 free-coffee-plus-a-donut vouchers were worth $927.61, well over the $600 threshold the IRS sets before requiring a person to declare something as a gift or prize. More…
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Nutty News - Americans really do love to work, it seems, while Europeans are much happier if they skip burning the midnight oil in favor of leisure. That’s according to a new study finding longer work hours make Europeans unhappy while Americans get a very slight (albeit not statistically significant) bliss boost from the extra grind. ”Those who work longer hours in Europe are less happy than those who work shorter hours, but in the U.S. it’s the other way around,” said study author Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, a clinical assistant professor of public policy at The University of Texas at Dallas. “The working hours’ category does not have a very big impact on the probability of happiness of Americans.” More
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Nutty News Washington DC - In an admirable effort to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Staute of Liberty, the U.S. Post Office has issued a commemorative first-class stamp! Of the wrong Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty depicted on the stamp is the replica Liberty located at the New York New York Casino in Las Vegas, not the Statue of Liberty located in the New York Harbor. The replica statue features a “rectangular patch” on the center spike—not to mention different hair and “more sharply defined” eyes. More
The first shows yet another case of creatively insane taxation. There may be gray areas between IRS fantasy and Constitutional truth, but taxing doughnuts won in a contest isn't one of them! The second item is keenly interesting in that modern conveniences were supposed to liberate both blue-collar and white-collar workers from the 40-hour weekly grind, but somehow, the more technically advanced we get, the less peace, quiet, serenity and leisure we possess. Oh, sure, be all you can be, don't waste a minute of the only life you'll every have. The top achievers should get the prize--but do we at some point rethink the price? The irony of the third item should need no comment now that America has nothing to do with liberty (a word never mentioned by politicians) and everything to do with gambling. Today's insane immigration policies are a perfect example. Slick Willy himself admitted that this "multicultural" thing was a crapshoot with America's future and that it might not work. He never said what planet he would move to if it didn't. Did you know it's actually the sculpture in question is actually the Statue Of Immigration inundation now? Well, in everything but name. Highly selective immigration. Politically charged immigration. Revolutionary, subversive, nihilist-Marxist immigration. /\/.
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