Trash talking isn’t so bad in American sports, just gay-baiting.
McRae said that when he was playing, much of the trash talk he heard was about sexual orientation.
“There were probably more comments about that than anything else because of just the way it is in our society,” he said. “If you knew or suspected a guy was gay, you would try to get under his skin.”
The IRS is firing the tax attorneys but cheating is out of control.
[Interesting that this article is by the same reporter as the one about firing half the tax attorneys, but no mention of it.]
So many superrich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level tax schemes.
…Cheating now equals about 7 cents out of each dollar paid by honest taxpayers, as much as $70 billion a year, the report estimated.
Japanese manufacturers now make more cars in the U.S. than they do in Asia.
Since then, Japanese production has expanded on every major continent. According to 2005 figures, the most recent breakdown from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association has 4.08 million vehicles made in the United States, 3.96 million in Asia, 1.55 million in Europe, 645,000 in Latin America, 226,000 in Africa, 135,000 in Australia and 10,500 in the Middle East.
[Update: Later Tuesday it was announced that Toyota had passed Ford in July to become the second largest carmaker in the U.S., after G.M. Honda could pass Daimler-Chrysler for fourth place soon.]