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Connecticut's state income tax needs refinement. Just in time for the tax season, The Hartford Courant reported Connecticut is the only state with an income tax to have not adjusted their income tax thresholds for inflation since 1991, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (0) comments
There is a wealth of personal and private information about you stored in your DNA. By analyzing your DNA, it is possible to determine if you are at risk for any number of diseases, carry a genetic disease or even determine paternity. But who owns your DNA and who has the right to have it sequenced and analyzed? A feature article in The New York Times by Amy Harmon recently pointed out an alarming trend of individuals, so zealous and determined to complete a family tree, that hey have resorted to stealing DNA from individuals who will not give it willingly. (0) comments
If you take the Blue Line and then the Yellow Line, does it take you to the Green Line? I saw a dog take a dump in the Student Union. My life is now complete. Should I be worried that the palm reader at Husky Howl told me I have "murderer's thumbs"? To the School of Music: We have urinated on your obelisk. (0) comments
In light of the latest Iraq debacle where a handful of British soldiers "may" have wandered into Iranian waters, I find myself asking "why are we all so worried about Iran in the first place"? I care about the British soldiers, I just do not care about the massive hype that everyone is attaching to Iran and the media-driven notion that the apocalypse is on its way - the same people who preached the same notion with the flesh-eating virus and the avian flu. (1) comment