We accept advertising through Blogads. If you're interested, click the "Advertise here" link above, or go here to place your ad through Blogads. For assistance, e-mail me here; I'd be glad to help. Reach lots of viewers -- we're up to about 3,800 unique visits a day, and more than 61,000 page views a week (as of November 4). Our rates are dirt cheap for the exposure you'll get!
As a lawyer/blogger, I get
to be a member of:
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Miles run year to date: 26
At this date last year: 15
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (11)
and if i live in Multnomah county, i can pay even more! let's see, I personally grossed just over $14,000 last year. With my partner, gross income was slightly above $46,000.
we payed $2,789 in tax over the year in federal
we payed $1,404 in state
WE OWE: $2,334 in federal
$953 in state
and $534.61 in MULTNOMAH CO ITAX
that's just great!
and get this - the first suggestion for paying these taxes is...take out a credit card advance!
gee thanks!
taxation is theft.
yak
Posted by yak | April 15, 2005 9:49 AM
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.''
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Posted by Erik | April 15, 2005 2:15 PM
Baloney. Taxes are what I pay to assure the government class a cushy retirement.
Posted by Molly | April 15, 2005 3:51 PM
Here in Oregon, according to many, taxes are the remedy for every problem.
Worse yet taxes are the remedy for problems that don't even exist until after the tax remedy creates it.
Posted by Steve Schopp | April 15, 2005 4:08 PM
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.''
yeah, that's just great words to live by coming from an unelected guy who had a job for life. must be easy for him to recite platitudes when i gotta work like a fool for $8 an hour to pay rent and credit card bills i'm still paying from taxes i owe from last year. what i should have done was tell Mult co to stick it where the sun dont shine. they dont even come up with a way to withhold their illegal tax and i, by my own good graces, decide to pay it to avoid further trouble down the road and you tell me "that's what you pay to live in a civilized society."
my federal tax dollars are going to kill people, steal people's land, grow pharmaceutical crops that contaminate the environment...yeah, that's civilized. you're lucky i'm so civilized or else i might have told what to do with your quotation. think for yourself. me, i say a society with no taxes would be more egalitarian and "civilized" than any that has existed to date.
and i wish i would have read this yesterday, before i paid out their blood money - oh, with another credit card advance.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/15/ed.col.taxresist.0415.html
Posted by yak | April 15, 2005 4:41 PM
Disgruntleds Disunited for ... uh, Disgruntlement! Geez, I thought I was cranky. Compadres! Mes amis! Salute!
:=)
Posted by Sally | April 15, 2005 5:44 PM
Whine. Bitch. Piss. Moan.
Taxes are the priviledge we pay to live in the greatest nation on Earth.
Posted by carla | April 15, 2005 6:08 PM
Carla,
Are you Diane Linn?
Posted by Steve Schopp | April 15, 2005 8:34 PM
oh my righteous brothers and sisters,
"Taxes are the priviledge we pay to live in the greatest nation on Earth."
carla, i sense sarcasm. at least i hope i do.
the most powerful nation, yes. the most militarized, yes. the most aggressive, yes. the most hated, yes. the fattest, yes. the most self-righteous, yes. but the greatest? i dont think so. we had a chance but, most unfortunately, our Constitution and government have been respectively ignored and taken over by interests that are not mine.
besides, if you think i pay taxes to live in the "greatest nation Earth," then why do people in the Netherlands pay taxes? to live in the 5th greatest nation on Earth? how about people in Mexico? to live in the 45th greatest nation on Earth? or how about Zambia? to live in the 152nd greatest nation on Earth?
you see your logic does not hold up because it does not exist. what little there is is drenched in ethnocentrism.
when is the last time you grossed $14,000 and had to write checks totaling over $4,000, from credit card advances, to cover you taxes?
taxes are what you and i pay for the "privilege" of being slaves to the world's largest military industrial complex. a few bucks may go to food stamps. great.
whine bitch piss moan is right.
while my government continues to occupy foreign lands and kill innocent civilians, you're goddamn right i'm gonna be pissed off.
so you just go on being happy about paying those taxes and your "privilege". because that is surely what it appears you have - a privileged life.
i hope your lifestyle is comfortable enough for you.
Posted by yak | April 16, 2005 11:25 AM
Taxes are the lubricant which oils the machine!
Oh, sorry, I could not help but reflect on the Iraqi occupation while doing my patriotic best.
Posted by Geno | April 16, 2005 3:01 PM
"Baloney. Taxes are what I pay to assure the government class a cushy retirement." - LOL!
I often find that those who complain most about taxes are the same that complain the government isn't doing enough in their area - and these are the same that want everything done but want to share none of the cost.
Settle down, get over it or move to a third world dictatorship. Well, not that living under The Cowboy's rule is that far from a deictatorship but still...
The Multnomah County Tax is temporary unless y'all vote it back in. So quit yer bitchin and pull your heads out, people.
Posted by TTM | April 19, 2005 3:12 PM