Maszman Speaks!

It’s The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave! Even after being sold, the ferry still costs us $6000 a day just to have it tied up at the pier while the new owner makes arrange­ments over in Europe.

Noth­ing the French hate more than an Amer­i­can win­ning the Tour de France mul­ti­ple times. Do they ever won­der why the rest of the world hates them so?

Good news, if you’re a crooked politi­cian. Not so good if you believe in free­dom of speech.

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Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

Man­hat­tan Square Park, not only is it ugly, but it’s inaccessible.

Bill Gates occa­sion­ally makes noises about tech­ni­cal edu­ca­tion in the US, but when push comes to shove he’s a big pro­po­nent of H1-B visas. [Salon​.com]

In honor of Memo­r­ial Day, these pho­tos from Tin­ian island in WW II remind us of the price some have paid for the world we live in today.

In case you don’t know, Tin­ian was the home air­field of the B-29 bombers that dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.