I found myself thinking about how we were told last year that the dividend tax was “double” taxation, which seems to me to presume that corporate investors are part of the corporation, in the way that my liver is part of my corpus: indivisible, with no benefits provided to the investor-corporation relationship by the government. Being reminded of the liability limitation makes it easier to realize that dividends are a transaction like any other, not akin to a corporation shuffling paper to move funds from one department to another, but an actual payment for services that are regulated.

While American earthworm species have been slow to recolonize the northern-most reaches of the U.S., European earthworm species, first introduced by colonial settlers, have made themselves at home in the country’s northern climes for several centuries.”
– http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0102_030102_earthworms.html

I think I first read about this example of displacement in Reading the Forested Landscape, which I can’t too highly recommend.