Legal proceedings can produce farcical, Alice-in-Wonderland style claims. This week, the IRS began auditing the tax returns of the National Education Association. According to documents gathered by the Landmark Legal Foundation, the NEA claimed that between 1993 and 1999, it spent no union dues on political activities, defined as anything intended to "influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of anyone to a federal, state, or local public office." The IRS is prohibited from talking about individual audits but we can imagine that this might have caused a few snickers around their water cooler.