The unpleasant truth behind the racist German rants about lazy Southerners, is that Germany is the only country that has truly benefited from the Euro. It had an overly strong currency that was killing its exports, particularly in a Europe of currencies that continually weakened against it. The Euro gave everyone else Germany’s currency and [...]
January 23, 2012
French horn vomit whimsy
I’m so glad you could all make it here today for our little celebration of your time at St Swithin’s School for boys. And I must say how gratifying it is to see how so many of you have succeeded in your chosen careers to become pillars of the professional communities upon which the prosperity [...]
January 18, 2012
Information underload as Wikipedia goes down
Wikipedia, the world’s only significant source of information you can get at without doing any fucking work at all, closed for 24 hours today to protest something whose details I was going to look up on Wikipedia. Whatever it was – and there is absolutely no way of finding that out now – it was [...]
January 17, 2012
Cruise ship sinking just in time to save national stereotype
You know how you believe something for years and you even say it occasionally when drunk and everyone tells you to be quiet or looks at you in horror and your partner shakes their head and then one day something happens that absolutely proves your broad-brush generalization was spot on all along? Well that’s what [...]
December 15, 2011
Sex is dead but it won’t lie down
The Japanese are way ahead again. They invented dancing plastic plants to replace the boring, static ones that die. They gave us bleeping mini-eggs as pets and we cared for them more than we care for our aging parents. And they built robots so pervily lifelike that you just knew they were the kind of [...]
May 17, 2012
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