Here's rant #1. I'm off to Ye Olde Temp Agency soon, so I'll make it short.

So you've got this article called "Repealing Estate Tax Not Good For Any Of Us," and by "any of us," presumably the otherwise insightful folks at TheStreet.com -- like my copyeditor, who I hope isn't reading this -- mean "those of us set to inherit, and the rest of you peons don't count." You've also got to love any column that begin, "Don't believe what you read elsewhere." Er, if you say so? Yessir?

I agree that the US tax code is FUBAR, but I have yet to hear any anti-estate tax argument that doesn't sound whiny and entitled. If someone left me a million bucks, you can believe the only thing I'd be upset about is the death. Even if the estate tax were 50%, that's still $500,000 that's yours, that you didn't have to work for, that you don't really deserve for any reason except that your dear departed whoever happened to have it, happened to like you, and happened to die. In other words, dig the Denis Leary school of psychotherapy and shut the f*ck up.