Wednesday, December 30th MMIX
New Millenium Math rears its ignorance once again. Just
as in the year 2000 the general public displayed its
School of Education mentality, so it is doing again at the
end of MMIX. (That's the traditional Roman Numberal dating
for 2009 for those of you who attend public schools.) This
time it's doing it by calling MMIX the "last year of the
decade," which, of course, it isn't. Since the millenium
began in MMI, MMX will be the last year of the first
decade of the millenium. You see, it's quite simple. Nine
and one make ten, unless you learned your math from a
member of the NEA.
Speaking of New Millenium Math, the Undocumented Community
Organizer has said that the extra trillion dollars health-
care legislation will add to the Federal budget will actually
decrease the deficit and save money. It's not unlike the
times my mother would spend two hundred dollars on a Sat-