A lot of countries have tax treaties with the US. So you can deduct the taxes you pay in that country from your US tax. You don't get double taxed. Of course, if you go to a place with very little taxes, you don't get to enjoy that.
This article sounds as if it was written sometime last century. In 2008, there is no excuse for a programming language in which "hello world" is longer than:
print "hello world"
The compiler/interpreter should handle the rest.
Edit: This is especially true if the language is used as a teaching tool for first time programmers.
"Theory of Everything" is not a theory for everything, literally. It is just a catchphrase used by physicists to mean a theory that encompasses the "Standard Model" (which describes particle physics) with General Relativity and gravitation, thus describing the whole physical universe (which, in the physicists narrow mind, is everything). So Godel has nothing to do with this.
E8 is an exceptional Lie group (ie a group that is also a manifold, hence in particular infinite). You seem to be mixing it up with the exceptional finite simple groups. Wikipedia explains.
Is the lady portrayed in this article supposed to be the average American or an extreme case of cluelessness? I don't know anybody who is in such a hole (or at least admits to).