Unhappy meals in Reykjavik

CNN surprised me with a heartfelt swan song on Iceland’s future lack of Happy Meals and Sausage Egg McMuffins. Great read.
Upon arrival at Reykjavik’s international airport the departure board displays a sign of things to come – the last flights of the day are to Boston and New York, destined no doubt to be packed [...]

The deep waters of the economic crises

While all the old, rich and powerful keep mumbling about recovery at the end of 2010, I tend not to believe in it. If anything 2010 will be worse than 2009. My opinion may rest in part on the fact that I am not rich, and therefore do not stand to loose my position of [...]

Bad times…

The greatest show on TV

HBOs “The Wire” is imho the best piece of american television produced in decades. Fot those already in the know here is a very in depth coverage of the whole series from a variety of angels by Darkmatter Journal.
For everybody else here is a taste:
Here two of the protagonists solve a murder, using only one [...]

Rettet den Tagi (Petition)

Bei der Zürcher Tageszeitung Tagesanzeiger soll ein Viertel der Redaktion gehen. Sagt die Geschäftsleitung. Und das, weil der Konzern dieses Jahr zum allerersten Mal in seiner über 100-jährigen Existenz keinen Gewinn geschrieben hat. Das ist etwa so, als ob man bei einer Kutsche, der das eine Rad eiert, das Pferd abspannt und erschiesst. Ohne starken [...]

Coffee-flavored coffee

Besides Starbucks apparent lack of a decent workplace, they have another major shortcoming. Considering they are supposed to serve coffee it is a bit funny how difficult it can be to actually get just that. Or as Dennis Leary said it below “Coffee-flavord Coffee”.

Mann oder Maus…

Dass die Handelsschule KV Basel als Betreiberin mehrerer kaufmännisch orientierter Lehrgänge und Kurse den pädagogischen Finger am Puls der Zeit haben muss, versteht sich. Schliesslich will man den Bedürfnissen der modernen Kundschaft, sprich der Schüler und Schülerinnen allen Alters gerecht werden und marktorientiert Lerninhalte anbieten, die uns in unserem Leben den entscheidenden Schritt weiter bringen…
So [...]

What happened in Abu Ghraib stays in Abu Ghraib…

So Obama is concerned if the public found out just how low US “techniques” for the treatment of alleged criminals go, the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan might be at a greater risk of getting attacked?
Obama defends abuse photos U-Turn (English)
What exactly is he withholding that we haven’t seen yet? So there’s still worse than [...]

Things are heating up

Seems some people in the US and other places are getting really pissed off at the managerial class. Reading the following article may give one hints if one has lived under a rock in a riverbad since, I don’t know, the jurassic…
Some excerpts:
A perfect example of the kind of person who benefited from the Reagan [...]

50 most loathsome people in the US

The Buffalo Beast names ‘em, lists their crimes and doles out punishment. Very funny – besides, a post that was not about economics was in order:
No. 50: Barack Obama – Exhibit A: “Yes we can” is the “Just do it” of politics.
Sentence: Presiding over the decline of an exhausted empire. (ok, ok, I admit it. [...]