A Pre-Game Pep Talk by a College Football Coach Who Recently Audited a Class on Nietzschean Thought Team, tonight we play the biggest game of our lives. I know you have heard our opposing coach’s comments—“We’re doing everything we can to honor our creator.” I also know you saw last week when their star quarterback took a knee and grabbed the sideline reporter’s microphone so the world could hear his prayer: Our father, who art in heaven I thr…

I Audited the Afghan Reconstruction. It Was Doomed From the Start. Greed and self-delusion kept the money flowing, and hid the truth from the public.

I’m audited for taxes owed, low 4 figures. Did the tax preparer screw up, or did I? Me and my mom get our taxes done through a good family friend of ours, her husband to be specific. He is a licensed tax preparer and get us similar good deals compared to going to one of the corporate chains. Eventually he got so many clients that he had to hire assistants to split the workload, so now there are younger people, in his home offic…