Bitter Clevelander: On accuracy and the suspension of disbelief.
Let’s hear it for science teachers – some science teachers. Not this science teacher.
Bitter Clevelander: On accuracy and the suspension of disbelief.
Let’s hear it for science teachers – some science teachers. Not this science teacher.
Here’s interesting column by Jeffrey Simpson in the March 23 Globe & Mail. In addition to the popular but economically misguided reductions to the GST the Conservatives have introduced a lot of
“boutique” tax credits, each designed to appeal to some narrow section of voters. I don’t have the facts but I’ll bet there is a pretty close mapping to local ridings where Conservatives have perennially close races.
“Consider a recent political pamphlet sent by a Conservative MP to his constituents. Called “tax savings for you and your family,” it lists page after page of these tax cuts, some expanding existing ones, others creating new ones.
“The list includes:
“Some of these are worthwhile, others are stupid”
But event the ones that are “worthwhile” are economically counter-productive because of their cumulative burden on the overall tax code.
Very nice use of technology to display scales.
I think there is a lot of room for speculation at both end of the spectrum. Relativity theory picks up where Newton left off, but I suspect it doesn’t work at the limits. The scientists are bumping into virtual walls where experimentation and even measurements are impossible. So long scientists, and thanks for the fish. Over to you, creationists.