Oct. 2nd, 2007

kevin_standlee: Corporate seal of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (SFSFC)
Cheryl passes on to me this article from The Economist about an attack on the tax deduction for charitable giving. Tax neepery about fannish non-profits follows )

As you might expect, I would be strongly opposed to removing the charitable tax deduction or to significantly narrowing the definition of what a "charity" is. I like the American system, and I think that saying "only donations to the poor are worthy," is a step down a slippery slope that leads to removing the deduction entirely and saying, "Only the government can choose what is really worth of public support." While the tax deduction (which I have sometimes taken) isn't my primary motivation for my volunteer work with fandom, I believe that removing the deduction would have a chilling impact on charitable giving of all sorts.
kevin_standlee: Kevin after losing a lot of weight. He peaked at 330, but over the following years got it down to 220 and continues to lose weight. (Default)
Courtesy of Making Light, we have Peter Sellers doing various British [not necessarily English] accents. Sellers, of course, was brilliant at this sort of thing. I wouldn't have thought of equating Cornwall/Devonshire with American, though.

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Oct. 2nd, 2007 05:15 pm
kevin_standlee: (Hugo Trophy)
I've turned up in one of the photo albums covering Nippon 2007, in this case as part of the Hugo Losers' Party coverage.

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