This isn’t terribly newsy, but it’s still quite striking: Slate’s Will Oremus passes along this neat map from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory: The main point here: Germany doesn’t get all that much sunlight. In fact, it gets about as much direct sunlight as Alaska does each year. Just about every single region in the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Germany
Singer Tony Bennett Equates Isolated Gun Violence to Nazi Germany, Fears Foreign Invasion
Tony Bennett is one of America's most popular singers but he has proven once again that talent in the arts is no predictor of intelligence. At a Wednesday press conference, the outspoken pacifist and ardent Democrat Bennett compared isolated gun deaths in the U.S. to Nazi concentration camps and said that if America did not… Read more »
Why Germany wants its 674 tons of gold back
Movie scriptwriters, rejoice! Germany’s central bank will relocate 54,000 solid gold bars, worth about $ 36 billion, from deep underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France in Paris to the safe confines of German soil — vaults at the Bundesbank’s Frankfurt headquarters. The Bundesbank understandably offered no details as… Read more »
Another Strange Communism Headline from NYTimes: ‘Summoning Halcyon Days Of Failed Ideals’ in East Germany
Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times once again. Check the headline over Dennis Lim's Sunday Arts & Leisure profileof the director of "Barbara," set in Communist East Germany in 1980: "Summoning Halcyon Days Of Failed Ideals." "Failed Ideals"? Can one imagine the paper running a headline that suggested a fascist society like… Read more »