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Funny how some people think they're gonna outwit the system and never get caught. Funnier still are the people that come into my library and then tell me what they're doing (or are planning to do). Such was the case with one enterprising young man who walked up to me the other day.   Seems Young Man had been working for himself for the last few years and, for one reason or another, forgotten to pay his taxes.   Oopsy. That's "oopsy" as in that's something that would kinda freak me out.  Young Man, on the other hand, is being a bit ballsy and braggy about being about to fly under the radar. Being a man of business, though, Young Man is getting kinda skittish about the whole thing and thinks (out loud) that maybe if he racks up a bunch of debt and then files bankruptcy that he'll be able to get around the tax liability thing.   When I start to mention how Willie Nelson tried to pull that , he cut me off and  wanted to bone up on things bankrup...

In the beginning when the smart people of the world said the world was flat and the earth was the center of the universe, everyone believed them.  When television was new, if someone said it on the TV, everyone knew it had to be true.  Fast forward a few decades and we get Facebook.  Turns out there are people who believe if it's on Facebook, it must be true .   Have you ever heard something and thought, "That can't be true?"  Turns out there are a whole lot of things being said all the time that are, eventually, shown to be true. For example: The NSA is tapping your phone lines There is cancer in your vaccines Asbestos is dangerous The CIA pays for false testimony (as in they encourage it) The FBI poisoned alcohol during prohibition The Gulf of Tonkin incident never really happened  (launching the Viet Nam War) The military is conspiring to instill fear in the populace Cell phones cause cancer County law libraries are open to the public W...