Here’s Melissa with Joss Stone in a tribute to the incredible Janis Joplin.

From Market Watch, which is part of the The Wall Street Journals Digital Network, not a hotbed of political activity. It’s a press release, not an article.

Merrill Lauds Melissa Etheridge

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Charles Merrill, the cousin of the man who founded Merrill Lynch & Co., and who predicted (Wall Street Journal, 10/31/2007) a stock market crash that will put the 1929 crash to shame, has also been a key figure since 2004 resisting paying federal income tax. Merrill is legally married to Kevin Boyle in California, and his case is going to court. The docket at ustaxcourt.gov is 3058-08, Merrill vs Commissioner of Internal Revenue and is scheduled to be heard in 2009, at U.S. Tax Court, San Diego.The latest celebrity to join a tax protest is singer Melissa Etheridge, who rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California — and she won’t be paying the state a dime.

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