If you haven’t read “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”…

Do it and do it now. The National Institute of Health has agreed to give credit to Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, but not before her cells were taken during a biopsy and used in research. The resulting research has generated billions of dollars. The Lacks …

So the IRS sent me a letter from the future

It arrived yesterday, April 20, and was dated next week, April 27. Evidently, they haven’t received my check for my 2014 tax bill, which wasn’t huge and I’m not complaining, but it’s the IRS and you don’t want to mess with them so: I immediately called their 800 number and spent 10 minutes punching numbers, …