WhyTheHeck

…this blog is on hiatus until the second edition of the book is out, which should be within the next month.

Some of the other finalist ideas besides the winner about the phone books are listed below.
Instead of taxing private golf clubs at the open-space rate normally used for farms etc, create a category of land tax halfway between true open space and full taxation, and allow clubs the choice of either:
(1) truly becoming open space, with no fences and [...]

People should be allowed to post Ghostbusters-type stickers (walking fingers with clash through them) to prohibit yellow pages companies from leaving their books on your doorstep.

Anyone been to the RMV since they downsized?  Did you get out and back the same day?   This idea won’t reduce the length of the trip but it will make it more pleasant:  Why don’t they hand out pagers, like they do when you’re waiting for a table at a restaurant?   That way you don’t [...]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/09/ED7H1CSB4H.DTL
During tax season, millions of people become victims of government-licensed loan sharks. That temporary storefront in your local neighborhood might say “tax preparation,” but in some cases it should say “high-cost loans.”
Here’s how it works: After these tax preparers calculate a customer’s tax refund, they offer a 90 percent payout on the spot, a so-called [...]