Read it and weep. Or maybe I should say look at it and weep. I suppose this is a good time to recycle my flat tax video. I don’t mention this in the video, but Hong Kong’s flat tax system, which has been around for more than 60 years, requires less than 200 pages...
In a letter from the summer of 404, Paulinus consents to this request. He does so with some hesitation – and on condition that his poetic tituli be used to present the deceased monastic bishop as the epitome of a felicitous life, while he himself was to serve as a cautionary ex-ample...
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Mélanie Watt Kids Can Press Buy from Amazon|Buy from BookSense(your local independent) Scribble by Deborah Freedman Knopf Books (Random House) Buy from Amazon|Buy from BookSense(your local independent) Secret life of Walter Kitty, The by Barbara Jean Hicks, ...
A few caveats. Just on this trip I’ve seen and heard some things that make me question the usefulness of postcranial fusions — of the neurocentral joints, sacrum, scapulocoracoid, and cervical ribs — for assessing sauropod ontogeny. I don’t think fusions are completely useless, just hig...
Today more than half the students enrolled in universities across the Middle East are women, although only a baffling 5% are represented in the work force. Still, the state of women in Muslim countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia is worrisome. Not because they are ...
How weird was the ilium of Brontomerus? February 26, 2011 Sorry for the very short post. We have some longer stuff planned, but we’ve been too busy to kick it out this week, and I wanted to leave you with something cool to ponder over the weekend. Here’s the ilium of Giraffa...
This is seen from the graph of their Bank and Broker CDS Index that measures default risk for 13 global financial firms. “While default risk is not nearly as high as it was prior to the initial TARP plan, its inability to ease is still cause for concern,” said Bespoke. In summary, ...