Q: How do you raise taxes without raising taxes?

A: By sending out misleading "notices."

SPRINGDALE -- City residents will be receiving an ad valorem tax notice from the city next week, but it's a volunteer tax.

The notices ask Springdale residents to pay voluntary taxes to support the fire department and the Springdale library.

Note to Springdale: if they're voluntary, they're not taxes. Even if you try to deceive taxpayers into thinking they have to pay them.

Defining cruelty down.

In Vermont, the jackbooted thugs apparently think making faces at their canine partners constitutes cruelty.

This monster should be imprisoned.

[H/T 2 Drudge.]

A is not A.

Or, in the case of Florida, permanent is not permanent.

In April, Florida paved the way to restore the vote to potentially hundreds of thousands of people who have completed their felony terms and previously were barred permanently from voting.

Words mean things. They have objective meanings.

But not in Florida.

[H/T 2 Mr. Hanna @ Tom Rants.]

One more thing, Flat-earther Rog...

. . . about that poll in the upper left of your site today...

Yes, I agree that the Chargers did hire Norv Turner.

From our "Apparently the headline writer is Corky from 'Life Goes On'" Bureau . . .

. . . let's take a look at this headline:

Sex toys ruled unconstitutional

Now let's take a look inside the story (emphasis mine):

A federal appeals court has ruled the state's ban on sex toys is constitutional.

You'd think that anyone in the journalism field would realize that words have meanings.

Seen on CBSNews.com today . . .

. . . and, I suspect, many, many previous days:

WTF is "Opinion News?"

News is by definition, not opinion. And opinion is not news.

I hope they don't start coloring their pictures BlackWhite. And that ManWoman in the anchor chair really needs to update HisHer Business Suit Evening Gown!

This is the crowd, we must remember, that believes Bush is a Stupid Evil Genius.

GoodBad job, Dipshit Einsteins!

P.S. WTF is the deal with "Products No One Wants To Buy?" Really, no one? How do they know this? Did they interview every single person on the planet?

How does one violate Lee's Summit's smoking ban?

Municipal Judge James Tobin found Michael M. Morrow guilty of failing to
post no-smoking signs and leaving ashtrays on tables.

Note the absence of actual smoking.