I received the following interesting email a few days ago:

Subject: RE: Seadog Bytes images

Kerry:

I ran across your blog today, and was pleased to see that you had apparently liked a few of my images (…which I’d sent to Art G. to put up StrangeCosmos)…
e.g.:
http://www.taxguru.net/comix/deathtaxgraverobbingbyirs.jpg
http://www.taxguru.net/comix/votersbewareemptyheads.jpg

The originals of those two images…
http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/GraveRobbingIRS.jpg
http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/ProsperityTaxed-1.jpg

…and a ‘few’ more (mostly conservative/political, as you might suspect) are up at our website: http://www.seadogbytes.com

(Access to most of the images is via the “Recent SeadogBytes” link near the center of the main page …you may find other SeadogBytes images there, or at StrangeCosmos, which you’d like to use from time to time.)

We’re certainly not in this for the money, but a reciprocal link back to http://www.seadogbytes.com, or a listing on your blog roll would certainly be appreciated, if you could manage to do that as a courtesy.

A text link would be absolutely fine, but if you need a logo graphic, one of the below images would also be all right to use (…or, if those don’t work for you, you could email to tell me what size you need and I could send you something back in relatively short order.)

Logos here:
http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/dogS1asm.gif
http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/dogS1aTiny.gif
http://www.seadogbytes.com/SeaRing50.gif

Thanks,
 – Brian

I wrote back:

Brian:

Thanks for writing and identifying yourself as the source of those pics I found on StrangeCosmos.  It’s often hard to know where the StrangeCosmos folks obtain their pics, especially when they add their name to the pic itself.

I also appreciate the link to your site and have added it to my blogroll and group of daily sites I will be visiting.  It’s great to know of another source of political parody photos, especially since the demise of Sacred Cow Burgers.

I will look over your other recent photos and appreciate your offer to allow me to post ones that my readers will like. 

I will also be posting this note and hope it results in more direct visitors to your website.

Thanks again for writing and keep up the excellent work.

Kerry Kerstetter

Follow-up from Brian:

Kerry:

Thank you very much! 

I have also, subject to your approval, added links to taxguru.net and taxguru.org to the main page at http://www.seadogbytes.com (middle of page, left column).

Also, if you are looking for other sources of ‘political art’, and have not yet seen them, you might like some of the things…

…at Linda Eddy’s http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/

…and Rich’s http://www.registeredmedia.com/gallery/

…both of whose images, in my experience, are uniformly excellent.

Regards,

 – Brian

My Reply:

Brian:

Thanks for the listing on your page and for the heads-up on those two other sites.  There are some very funny political comics there.

Kerry

 

As anyone could have predicted, the IRS plan to outsource some of their tax collections to private companies (gangs, families,et al) was ripe for even more screw-ups than are normal for IRS. IRS has even issued press releases warning people about the potential for scams, especially with real life free-lancers (aka scam artists) pretending to be tax collectors.

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The regular press is even picking up on this story:

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