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Here's my pitch:

Employers frequently withhold more than taxes from paychecks. For instance, when I worked at Starbucks, I could choose to have a few bucks a month taken out post-tax to help other Starbucks employees with financial crises. Right now, I get a pre-tax withholding for transportation reimbursements, which …

I was discussing the patent system with a right-wing penpal. At one point, he questioned the necessity of patents and copyrights and, because I believe that a properly-moderated patent/copyright system is a good healthy thing, I wondered how I ended up to the right of him on this issue …

Pam on Big Brass Blog took a look at some of the Free Republic reactions to a story about public breastfeeding. It's pretty amazing. There needs to be a word for those times when you know damn well that some awful thing/idea is out there in the world, and …