Philadelphia, you suck!  

Philadelphia is assessing a business privilege license on bloggers. 
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100824/D9HPINSO4.html

If a blog takes money for advertising, or sells photographs or other goods, it’s a business and must pay for a license – no matter how little it makes – plus taxes on profits.

Bullshit.  Not according to the IRS, you dip-dots.  Read IRS Is Your Hobby A For-Profit Endeavor? 

So to all of you Philly bloggers…and by the way, why do these dumbasses think that everyone who’s online with a site is a blogger?  What about old school websites?  You see, already they don’t know wtf they’re talking about.

As I was saying…to beat this bullshit “business license”…

1. Register your domain name with NameCheap and take advantage of their FREE privacy manager called WhoIs Guard.  It will protect your name and address from prying eyes.  The ONLY ones that can pierce the veil of privacy is law enforcement or some asshole with a court order.  WhoIs Guard is free for the first year and only $2.88/yr after that.  Do NOT use goDaddy .  They suck and will charge you around $9/year, plus, you can’t temporarily turn it off if you need to.  NameCheap lets you turn it off and on as many times as you like.
2. Write all of your articles with a pseudo name.  Authors do it all the time.  Case in point, Stephen King used Richard Bachman.