On figuring out who the good guys are:

If you've got two groups of people who are arguing, and one of them points to a good thing that the other one did, and then tries to make it sound like a bad thing, the people who make the good thing sound like a bad thing are the bad guys.

I'm looking at you, Gov. Palin. Most folks think that working with the poor and downtrodden to try to give them hope and a future is a good thing. If you are saying that being a community organizer is a bad thing, then you are saying that a good thing is bad. And only bad people say that good things are bad.

Actually, yes, it IS that simple.

We all know that Al Capone was eventually nabbed on income tax evasion charges . . .

. . . but I didn't realize, until just now, that that was because that probably was the most serious thing he was doing.

One estimate has Al Capone making $100 million per year on beer ALONE in several years, not counting liquor, rackets, or anything else.

In the Twenties, the top rate on income tax was a staggering 91%. Capone may have made a quarter BILLION dollars in PERSONAL profit in the 1920s, giving him a tax liability of, oh, tens of millions of dollars. Tens of millions of 1920 dollars.

That's above and beyond the business taxes he wasn't paying.

Wow. Forget the murder and corruption charges -- the income tax evasion WAS the most destructive thing he was doing!