Check your math

Published 6:30 pm Wednesday, April 9, 2014

So your lies add up: Leading up to the April 15 deadline to file federal taxes, a new poll finds that nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe that completing tax returns is easy, while most believe that up to a third of their fellow citizens cheat on their taxes.

Those who admitted to cheating on their taxes said it’s actually harder because you have to figure out how to get a big refund check but no so big that the IRS auditors double over with laughter.

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One or two scoops? CT scans and other medical imaging of the British Museum’s ancient mummies is revealing detailed anatomy and other surprises, including an embalmer’s brain-scooping tool left by accident inside the mummy’s skull.

Strengthening the suspicion of the embalmer’s error was a medical malpractice lawsuit left at the tomb, engraved in hieroglyphics.

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Mad, I tell you: AMC’s “Mad Men” returns Sunday for a final two-part season, but creator Matthew Weiner has been mum about how the series will end for ad man Don Draper, who at the end of the last season had suffered a nervous breakdown.

We can’t divulge our source, but we’re told the season opens with Don sitting in a corner and mumbling to himself: “Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun,” over and over.

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