Politics & Current Affairs

A lengthy book, and pleasant to hold in the hand. What is inside it? Hmm ... stanzas, each in the seventeen syllable form of a haiku: yet constituting informative writing in clear and simple prose (like this description you are reading, which is in the same stanza form). What is it about? The cover says: satire on life and religion. Is it funny, then? Sometimes, and sometimes a good deal worse than funny. There are passages, a few, that bring you up short. What were you thinking? About what you met in your life, and what you thought you think about God. (You know, that God, the most hilarious being in the universe.) The book is built of brief discourses, that seem like s ...

Iconoclast is a collection of new and older poems by Los Angeles area artist Sharee Anne Gorman (annienomad). In this collection, her fourth to date, she shares her journey from social misfit and traumatized youth hiding in plain sight to social critic and political skeptic. Some of the heuristics she has developed along this journey are keys she uses to keep her hand on the inside of the reality maze. Here are a few of those heuristics: * If you know their name, they're a figurehead. * Everything is looting...and lies to cover looting. * If you're seeing it...it's because they want you to see it. * The revolution will be scripted.

When asked to describe what the book is about, I wanted to say 600 pp, going for the laugh. But there are laughs a'plenty in the book, so here is the serious answer. Ultimately, it is about ambition, hope, leadership, and resilience; of doing the right thing and remaining true to one's self, and of extraordinary achievement, both in the private sector and the Republican political arena. The real life incredible stories in the book run the gamut from the stark poverty of the writer's first dozen years to his disciplined approach in turning his extreme shyness into an extroverted personality before your eyes. On the political front, view first hand as Ron takes 3 unwinnable gubernatoria ...

It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Tax Code § 83 “explains how” to tax compensation for services, it “governs the taxation” of any and all compensation, but no accountant, IRS Agent, or attorney has the first clue about its existence; it’s a forgotten paragraph. The courts say it’s integral and of primary importance, but only one man has bothered to analyze its language, and found it to be so profound that he wrote this manual about its proper application. Only the “excess over the amount paid is gross income” - The ramifications of this are so damning and sweeping the gov’t runs from questions about it.