Plastic recycling is bullshit
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-plastic-recycling-rate-drops-to-close-to-5-report
America is the only rich country that has frequent mass shootings
So far this year (2019) America has averaged one shooting in which four or more people are killed or injured every single day.
Quote from Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
It (the income tax law) was, however, subjected to a succession of rate reductions and amendments, one of them being the elimination, in 1865, of its progressive rates, on the arresting ground that collecting 10 per cent on high incomes and lower rates on lower incomes constituted undue discrimination against wealth.
Edward #Snowden Bust in Brooklyn Park (just for a few hours…)
Very cool: Activists erected a Snowden-Memorial in a park in NYC – police is furious and took it down quickly.
Insane: mother jailed for letting 9-year old play alone
The Economist has a special on helicopter parents. Unbelievable: “In South Carolina this month Debra Harrell was jailed for letting her nine-year-old daughter play in a park unsupervised. The child, who had a mobile phone and had not been harmed in any way, was briefly taken into custody of the social services.” How are kids…
Germans requesting asylum in USA for not being allowed to home-school in Germany
Lexington: The home-school conundrum | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600122-meeting-german-christians-who-claimed-asylum-america-home-school-conundrum
Senate Comittee Result of Goldman Sachs Inquiry
This is a really scary report regarding Goldman Sachs’ actions during the financial bust. But the fact that such an inquiry takes place gives us hope. Now, let’s hope that some people will go to jail. A great read!
What is the opposite of competition?
For Europeans the answer is "solidarity", for Americans it is "monopoly" (from the Economist: Charlemagne – Single Market Bargianing): "A FEW times a year, Charlemagne has the luck to teach students at a European management school in Paris. It is an enlightening experience (for your columnist, at least). One popular question has been why some…
US-Border Authority turns conference speaker away
A scary blog entry, and important information for anybody who is speaking at US conferences.
Spin!
Germans don’t like McCain. Still was it really necessary to print this picture (right)? But what is particularly interesting was the subtitle: In the Rheinische Post the descriptionwas "McCain making faces at Obama" (unfortunately, I found this only in print, not online). In Hamburger Abendblatt, it was described as "Obama tripping". In both cases, the…