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Image via Wikipedia An author and film-maker, J. Neil Schulman, wrote a novel in 1979 about the collapse of the American economy due to massive government overspending and pumping massive amounts of unbacked money and credit into the the system. Schulman claims the US government has stolen his plot! How long before the Randians follow [...]

Image via Wikipedia Do you read autobiographies? I read a lot of books, but autobiographies is not a genre that has attracted me much for most of my life. At a certain stage of his life, my dad  read and recommended autobiographies to me . I remember one. It was the autobiography of actor Dirk [...]

Image via Wikipedia The Doctor Recommends this Onion News story about outsourcing. Great idea.

I love them. Practice your wit and inventiveness here (or just lol at the wit of others: there’s plenty, scroll down to the comments for better ones). My favourite: Balls, where did I leave my keys?

Thanks to Japan Probe, I discovered that the British comedy series The Office had a Japanese inspiration. Like The Office itself, people seem to either love it or not find it funny at all. And speaking of Japan news, those foreigners living in Japan may be glad to know that the term “gaijin” has been [...]