Americans lose their shit over cheap beer prices. If you ever meet someone from western New York state, they will — not a question of if, a question of when — tell you about Genny Cream Ale and how it’s something like… Continue Reading
Consider this: only 20 years ago, the Russian army still had troops in Poland. Democracy in Poland didn’t even start to gain steam as an idea until June of 1989, and that followed a long period where many economic observers… Continue Reading
$60K per kilogram, from North Korea to NYC. The total haul was 100 kilograms, and the root of it is sketchy — North Korea purportedly burned all their meth labs, but are still producing and the new levels are extremely pure, Heisenberg-level -ish… Continue Reading
Today is ‘Singles Day’ in China; for better or worse, that’s their equivalent of Cyber Monday. ‘Singles Day’ is November 11 each year — 11.11 — because the ‘ones’ (1s) in 11.11 represent bare branches, or Chinese slang for bachelors. Around… Continue Reading
This is going to be a hard one to figure out, because the censors are swooping in, but to recap, a Jeep plowed into the area and killed five (injured 38) in the process. It’s believed that the suspects are… Continue Reading
The simple story is that it has to do with protests of rural houses being set for destruction because of China’s desire to urbanize; 41 people have lit themselves on fire (it’s called self-immolation) between January 2009 and January 2012… Continue Reading