I've been telling a few tales of foreign language mix-ups on my relatively new Facebook page, and folks seem to be getting a kick out of it, so today I told them about the time the gorgeous blonde Virgin Atlantic flight attendant took my fanny pack before take off. When I asked for it back, I got a bit more than I bargained for.... I've posted the whole story on my Facebook page. Check it out. I'm using the page for everything NON-politics. Photography, my cultural observations about France (yes, I'm still here - the doctors won't let me fly until October, but fortunately my eye is healing), and more.
Paying Off Pirates
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Via Tyler Cowen, a fascinating article about the pirate-based economy of one
swathe of coastal Somalia. Any time you read about the pirates it’s hard not
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