I’ve got so many jokes rolling around in my head about Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day that I don’t know where to start. From the concept and title of this event to the idea that girls need to be “introduced” to engineering…I can’t get anything funny to fully develop.
Those funny brits! When they discuss mathematics as an educational subject the refer to it in the plural, as in this How’s your maths? quiz. See if you need to brush up a bit.
You will have to pretend that you are British for a few of the questions that come up on the Are You A Cynic? quiz, but it’s short and self-reflecting quizzes aren’t a bad thing.
I like this article from the Washington Posts that covers the differences between what Bush sayas the tax cuts cover and what the IRS numbers show. Bush wants us to believe that raising the tax rate of the highest tax bracket would hurt small business.
According to IRS data from the 2001 tax year, 3.8 percent of the 18.2 million business tax returns filed that year reported taxable income of $200,000 or more. The top tax bracket last year kicked in at $311,950 of taxable income.
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