It was the strangest thing - somehow Brian M. "forgot" to report the $300k until Karl Hans had mentioned it publicly.

Such a forgetful man.

The part that I loved/hated on the CBC special on Brian and the $300k was where he used his 10 year old son as a prop to lie straight into the camera, in that rich basso profundo.

I tire of people screeching "conspiracy theory!!" every time some of us doubt the offical government line (cf. the taser thing, one official lie after another, piled on top of another, with an icing of lies and a red maraschino lie on top.  If there were no video to see we'd have the cake shoved down our throat and be told to say ummm good).

When the Brian M (or should I say "Britan"?) thing started surfacing in the 90's, my friends tended to say "conspiracy theory!" for not swallowing and saying umm good.  Of course now the conspiracy label is just stuck on the next thing.  Thank god for little truths sneaking out like the Brian thing.

KXL - happy if we have to pay taxes on it.  At the capital gains rate, even happier day. 

Taxes - I hear everyone moan about them, and I'm just happy I don't subject myself to that.  I have friends in wheelchairs who spend their time being happy how sunny it is outside and planning their next big project.

I honestly feel that when I pay taxes it means I'm making money.  It's the same amount of taxes paid - you can feel miserable (note the root of the word) or you can feel happy.  The tax man feels the same either way - you're just a number.  They way we feel is our CHOICE!  (Pardon me on the bully pulpit).

As a good friend of mine put it "we should be so lucky as to have such problems".  He also says
"don't be so sure you want to get rid of your problems.  Because, like everyone else, then you will only have NEW problems."

Notice that lottery winners are usually broke within a year.  No joke.  I had a common law partner like that - she had $0 after one year of lottery life.

So I'm actually looking FORWARD to making my next tax installment (because it's my choice!) and I'm holding, holding most of my KXL.  Next year $5 will look very, very cheap.