Cold Coffee

Makes you pretty, they say. Of course, this isn’t necessarily true. It’s a result of cognitive dissonance. When you make buttloads of coffe, some of it is bound to go cold, and commercial coffee tastes aweful when it’s cold. But it still has the effect of enhancing concentration, and if you don’t want to be […]

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Heil to the Queen!

I am not usually interested in Royals, famous people, movie stars, whatevs. But this Hitler greeting has twisted a lot of panties, it seems. And rightfully, I might add. Not rightfully because the Royal Family of the United Kingdom are depraved Nazi sympathizers. I’d have to have my head checked if I believed that. The […]

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Solidarity for Greece

As my regular readers know, I live in Germany. Every day at work I read (with due contempt) the BILD Zeitung. If you don’t know what that is, it is a paper infamous for being the greatest source of half truths and propaganda in Germany. I read it because I am left with little else […]

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