Bookworm on Oct 20 2007 | Filed under: Germany
Michael Knox has an absolutely fascinating bio of the amazingly decadent and recently deceased Count Gottfried von Bismarck, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, the man who took fractured German duchies and, for better or worse, united them into a single country. In a relatively short essay, he manages to walk us through the amazingly debauched [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Germany
The reason people are disgusted with politicians, politics and committees is because of the time they waste on things like this:
Berlin’s first major international airport may be far from finished — opening day is at least four years off — but politicians have already started squabbling over its name. Should it be the Albert Einstein [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Germany
Truther madness has invaded Germany at the highest levels: one of the government-run TV stations ran an “investigative” show that examined whether it was OBL or the US government that took down the Twin Towers and tried to destroy the Pentagon and other buildings in D.C.:
Have you heard this one before?
Jupp says to his [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Germany
Debate will always rage about the purpose of imprisonment and the reasonable length for prison sentences. Some people think prison exists solely to punish people, while others believe that we need to use prisons to rehabilitate people, and stop being so gosh darn punitive. I tend to fall in a mushy middle that [...]
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