"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

I've done just about everything there is to do in business, but I still loathe bookkeeping. This time of the year is especially odious - tax season.

Every now and then though, the accounting world does come up with a good story like this one: "Iraq needed fuel. Halliburton Co. was ordered to get it there — quick. So the Houston-based contractor charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel." Ah yes, ain't capitalism grand! BushCo just loves it!!!

(update- I couldn't resist adding this): I wonder if there's a good market in smuggling cooking fuel especially in a country that is estimated to hold 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and possibly much more undiscovered oil in unexplored areas of the country. Iraq also is estimated to contain at least 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. link

And we're paying Halliburton millions to deliver fuel there?! WTF!!!!