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The Quirky Post
http://www.thequirkypost.com/
Expat living in Paris, France, writing satirical columns about politics, people, and the occasional personal experience.
New columns on Mondays and Thursdays
- Author: Jelle
- Listed in: Observational Humor Humor
- Tags: paris living in france starbucks satirical blog kramerica
Recent Posts
There will be change
THE OTHER DAY, browsing my bookcase for no particular reason, I came across 'America's New Democracy' (by Fiorina, Peterson and Voss). Reading through a couple of pages I was surprised to find it so outdated, even though my version (1st edition) was ...
Gold over Love
LAST WEEK, FAMOUS INVESTOR Warren Buffet, when asked why his investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway had still so much cash ($20 billion) on hand, after just having bought an entire railroad company, gave the inevitable Scrooge McDuck answer: " I like ...
That Wall
IN NOVEMBER 1989, weeks -days even- after the Berlin Wall had fallen, my brother went on a week long excursion to Berlin with his class. Senior year, 18 years old, traveling from Holland to Berlin, Germany, where it was all happening. The Germans, wh...
A strange year for Democracy
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, it will be exactly 1 year since Democracy celebrated one of its more promising victories, when the United States elected as its President a black man who campaigned on positive change.This year, so it seems, democracy hardly h...
French online piracy law, and how to circumvent it
LAST THURSDAY, the French Constitutional Court signed off on what some have already dubbed as the 'Anti-Internet Law'. The so called HADOPI 2* law (after HADOPI 1 was shot down by the same court, in July 2009) means to help the entertainment industr...
Press 2 for investment banking
TO MOST PEOPLE, the idea of increasing the mortgage on your house with a high interest loan, and then using that loan to play the stock market, would have sounded insane a couple of months ago. After all, housing prices had completely tanked, unemplo...
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