John Cleese's "Letter to America"

It’s a fun read:

In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Read the letter.

Another failed foreign policy

A little history on the US’s foreign policy with Iran. Big surprise, we actually destroyed their democracy.

Yes we can

This election season is the first time that I have ever been inspired by a candidate. I ran across a video that someone put together that consists of a song set to one of the candidates speeches that I thought was really well done. You may or may not like the candidate, but if [...]

Plastic bag tax in Ireland works like a charm

From the article:

In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts.

Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within [...]