THE WRITER'S LAMENT
In a San Jose Mercury News column, Joanne Jacobs compares her freelance finances to Arianna's and speculates on tax deductions to come:
Just imagine Huffington's deductions for 2003: Since her campaign is designed to give her publicity, which will promote her books and commentary, the whole thing can be written off as a business expense.
I wrote this a couple of days ago but forgot to change "draft" to "publish," so it never appeared. That sort of thing never happened when I rolled my own HTML.