Good morning, hello, and thanks to the new readers who dropped by as a result of AmazonFail coverage. Thanks also to old readers for your comments, support, links, and just general awesomeness. And that’s all I have to say about that. (Go ahead, heave that sigh of relief. I’ll wait.)

It’s tax day. I will feel a great surge of moral cleanliness when I drop my return in the mail. I suspect the feeling will not last. Feelings of moral cleanliness never do, for me. It’s a dirty dirty world we live in