Wednesday digest

- Happy early Easter (H/T: Lee).

- It's tax time again. Instead of dealing with Schedule 1 and Form 3 and T4As and the like, wouldn't it just be easier if we all wrote our income on the back of a postcard, deducted 25% of it, and sent that number into the government, which would then refund us accordingly based on the taxes we paid through the year?

- It looks like Venezuela's press is under siege, thanks to the new "social responsibility" laws in that Marxist utopia. (Expecting to hear any protest from the Western left? Don't hold your breath.)

- Loved the CBC coverage of the Speech from the Throne last night. Apparently it's American (complete with images of President Bush) to invite guests like Canadian soldiers to the Senate Chamber. In fact, Harper apparently "Reaganized" the occasion by doing so, according to correspondent Eric Sorensen. I can only conclude that Bill Clinton dragging welfare moms to Congress days after the Monica scandal during the State of the Union back in '98 escaped the CBC for some reason.

- And on that note, the 2005 Dishonour Awards.

- The older ones gets, the more traditional one becomes, so they say. Hell, even Gloria Steinem married at 66, and now Prince and Madonna are distancing themselves from their pasts. What's next ... Hef selling the Playboy Mansion?!?

- I can't believe it. I'm on the same side of an issue as the ACLU. Apparently, a school in California has banned "patriotic" clothing. Has it really come to this?