Gene Chapman, the blogger who was 40 days into a "Death Fast" in protest of the IRS, has called off the fast. This blog's previous post linked to this backgrounder:

He says he's entered the "death zone" — that period when he expects to succumb to the effects of his multi-week hunger protest.

Thirty-six-year-old Gene Chapman hasn't eaten since tax day, April 15. The Texas man, who early on spent hours each day sitting across the street from the Austin IRS office, vows to die of starvation unless he receives what he considers an adequate answer to one question: "Where is my tax liability in the law?"