There’s nothing wrong with liking The Beatles. They were a damn good pop band. But that’s what they were: a damn good pop band. Pop, or popular music, is by definition not anti-establishment.
W.E.S. Contest
Write an Entire Story Contest
Guidelines
Deadline: April 30th, 2009
Length 5,000 to 10,000 words
Concept Blank punk genera. Modern Day Pulp Fiction, Pirates, Internet Pirates, Dystopian, Zombies, Jesus coming back as mutated sheep because the devil foiled the cloning process and he had to come back early. Now Jesus has to work on his crusade in the body of a mutated, were-sheep, who can raise the dead. O.K. Not that last one, we are keeping that one.
Submit submit@americannonfiction.com
No Taxation Without Representation: Who Pays The Taxman?
In the introduction of “No Taxation Without Representation”, our unschooled guide to American Federal Tax, we learned the history of American Federal tax. How in 1913, Congress elected the Sixteenth Amendment into the constitution and slush funds rejoiced. Armed with the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress was allowed to charge a income tax and tax they did. From depression creating lows in the 20% to nation building highs of over 90%.
In “Where Do The American Tax Dollars Go?“, we learned where our federal tax dollar go. How our military gets over .40 cents, heath care gets over 20 cents, and the school system gets almost .4 cents of every tax dollar. We learned of the many areas our tax dollars are spent. In our examination, we have seen mountains of money collected by our federal government. But, where does all the money come from and who pays the federal taxman?
When the Binary is Silent…
The gears work in over drive.
Thoughts leap and bound.
Procrastination lurks at the door.
Knuckles crack a thin weak symphony.
Fans beat wind against stale air.
The pipe, hues of blue and black, sits like Sherlock.
A can is left on the table, the label claims calorie, carbs and sugar free.
A 5th of Jack Daniel’s sits on the table, a 5th of a 5th left for consumption.
The world becomes fractitle and spacious.
She says I am callow, shallow, twisted and I never met a woman who wasn’t right.
The ears are def from the lack of sound and noisier thoughts.
The cellphone strobes out a green light heart beat, signals from communication.
I become a hermit doomed to live in this terrarium.
…and now for The News, with your host, Ian McLeod
So we’re well over the 1 month mark for the Obamadministration. So far, he’s taking to his office like a goldfish takes to a kitchen floor. In the news over the past few weeks: Satan is eating Ben and Jerry’s, Blind Men don’t watch DVDs, and Nobody in the new U.S. Diplomatic Corps speaks Russian.
8 Parties of Speech
In this installment of “the Politics of Words”, our guide to grammar writing good. we take a look at the 8 parts of speech and see how they compare to political parties. Every Political Party has rules to dictate the party line and the 8 Political parties of Speech come with their own rules. Join as we discover the rules and pave our own way in a guide to grammar writing good.



