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Cake or biscuit? Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are “zero rated”. Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVities classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991, this was challenged by Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise and the case ended up before the [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/opinion/21fri1.html?hp Basically, when the middle class and poor fall, we tell them that it’s their fault, refuse to bail them out, etc. And that’s fine. But when the rich fail, we bail them out. Wonder where everyone got the idea that the government should bail them out? We’re acting like a bank: when you owe [...]
Similarly I like Joseph Beuys, and were he not dead he would like me too. Maybe that’s not true. I can’t tell. Anyways, it’s 85 degrees here. Or, 29.4. However you prefer. It’s quite nice.
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman [...]