Des offres alléchantes sont souvent proposées lors de foires d’exposition. Mais les contrats conclus dans ce cadre là peuvent parfois tourner à l’aigre. C’est ce qui est arrivé à l’un de nos auditeurs, qui a versé un acompte pour s’assurer de l’acquisition d’appareils ménagers....

Several years ago, a friend of mine gave me a book for my birthday called Thought Contagion. I had not heard of the book or its subject matter, the science of memetics, but I was fascinated by what I read. Author Aaron Lynch explained, concisely and convincingly, how some of the most significant bel...

In late October of last year, a tented food stall appeared on the corner near my house, selling squid and beondaegi, among other things. It can be seen below: Strangely, not too long after appeared, it seemed to have been knocked down. The concrete pylons next to the tent had been knocked over too. ...

Out of all the fucking glorious mountains in the world, why is Mt. Fuji so universally beloved? I can't believe nobody's ever written this before. So I reiterate: FUCK FUJIYAMA* Some people like mountain climbing; I like mountain hating. FUCK YOU FUJISAN, YOU STUPID DORMANT VOLCANO! Also, just to co...

As much as I enjoy visiting Las Vegas, I can’t say it’s the healthiest place in the world for a vacation. The local culture encourages excessive and continuous consumption of alcohol and food (not necessarily of the highest quality). And given the large numbers of smokers, the air qualit...

Dr. Nagaratnam Ranjithan has spent decades building a thriving medical practice in Maryland as a kidney specialist. Federal authorities say he has also helped finance Asian death squads. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Ranjithan’s Tamil Foundation, alleging that the...

The services sector is by far the largest in the world’s economy.  Services comprise 64 percent of GDP overall, about twice as large as the GDP of the industrial sector.  The services sector represents over 70 percent of GDP in advanced economies and close to 80 percent in the US....

In today’s email, a friend has sent me some photographs of angry Muslims demonstrating on the street in what appears to be London. They are carrying signs, glowering menacingly, brandishing their fists, and shouting. The messages they carry are clear enough, if rather unimaginatively monotonou...

It seems strange that we, as humans, seem to be born with a built-in aversion to the things that are good for us. That's probably one of the root causes as to why many of us have chronic health problems and don't live to an optimal age. It would seem that, if anything would motivate us to li...

The Big Picture captures the Dokdo/Takeshima (Takeshima/Dokdo) debate through big news shots: Dokdo or Takeshima They should just take one island a piece and turn them into penal colonies, or breeding grounds for the next generation of Godzilla. Actually, the best way to handle this situation is pro...