If you filed electronically, you probably already got your refund check, or you will soon. The more money you made last year the more likely you are to have gotten a fairly substantial break from Bush’s tax cuts. I know your first thought upon receiving that check is to pay off outstanding bills, credit card [...]
When I read this back in February, my first thought was “Oh s–t! We are all going to die.” My second thought was, “That would make a great movie!” In quick summary, if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, [...]
(man-dame-us) n. Latin for “we order,” a writ (more modernly called a “writ of mandate”) which orders a public agency or governmental body to perform an act required by law when it has neglected or refused to do so. Examples: After petitions were filed with sufficient valid signatures to qualify a proposition for the ballot, [...]
Konrad Lawson, whom I’ve long known only as the person behind the Macintosh software company Fool’s Workshop, has an excellent blog, Muninn, which I will soon be adding to my blogroll. LanguageHat brought my attention to two posts in particular: One on the creation of the Qiang ethnic minority, and another on attempts at Chinese [...]