The Dubai of the Stalinist world has launched official boat tours to Mount Kumgang, using the repossessed Hyundai Asan resort as the launching pad for their efforts. Japanese, South Korean, Chinese and American businessmen purportedly enjoyed the finest North Korea had to offer while on board the luxury liner. Who wouldn’t want to cruise around […]
Read MoreI adore Maangchi and her culinary delights. Samgyeopsal is the typical Korean dish I introduce to friends who have not had a lot of experience with Korean food. It requires a hot-plate type device for cooking, but I’ve always used a skillet to great effect – I’ve never been a big fan of the griddle […]
Read MoreA woman in Spartanburg, SC, purchased the above thinking it was a real iPad. The block of wood with crude, Apple-esque features came at a price of $180 dollar and was given to her in a FedEx box. Obviously, upon opening the box and trying to plug it in, she realized it was probably not […]
Read MoreThe ‘undisputed’ leader of the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been named by Forbes as the most powerful woman in the world. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came in second, with Sarah Palin, a Facebook employee and a Twitter founder also making the list. After reviewing the last few, I really would like […]
Read MoreA gigantic rat believed to have formerly been a pet met its end in Brooklyn at the point of a pitchfork. In a picture sure to thrill PETA, a local resident holds up the carcass of the slain rodent who more resembles a stuck cat than it does a rat. Bed-Stuy has been plagued by […]
Read MoreWow. An 18 pound lobster was delivered to Coney Island for use as an exhibition piece after the lucky guy escaped death by boiling and garlic butter because no pot could be found within which to cook him. Now he will be a part of Coney Island’s menagerie, which is a somewhat more desirable fate […]
Read MoreYoshihiko Noda will be the 6th Prime Minister of Japan elected in the past five years. He comes as Naoto Kan’s replacement, fulfilling Kan’s promise to step down as soon as the tsunami and its attendant crises had been sufficiently allayed. Like Kan, Yoshihiko Noda is from the Democratic Party of Japan, the first political […]
Read MoreIMF Chief Christine LaGarde, replacement for Dominique Strauss Kahn (who seemed to be busier chasing tail than focusing on his job), has advocated for a capital injection into European banks and states that ‘decoupling’ EU states from the monetary union is a myth. She has argued for capital injections into European banks, solutions to the […]
Read MoreAs discussed in previous blog posts, the problem with the Euro and the current debt crises wracking EU states like Greece and Spain stems largely from the EU member-states unrestrained ability to borrow money in the form of sovereign debt. While the Euro binds the EU together in monetary union, each member state is still […]
Read MoreOh, would be anarchists and revolutionaries, aka the children who caused the London riots and the other riots which gripped England for a while, are now locked away in jail and are finding life there to be quite difficult. Of course, prisons around the world have their own justice system, and English juvenile detention facilities […]
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