A few weeks ago I read a piece called The Illusion of Corruption on the blog of a Romanian who grew up in Canada but has now returned to his homeland (and as a side note, the author is a personal friend) and the more I thought about it, the more I realized what he said is true. There are a lot of foreigners who … Continue reading Incompetence on Every Level
Well the results are in from my little experiment with the ads. Quite clearly I can now cease all other activity and go on vacation to the South Pacific in a chartered Gulfstream and go ahead and finally place that order for a custom limousine entirely plated in gold and encrusted in diamonds because over the last month I earned a grand total of $5.42. … Continue reading Ad Hoc
If you’re like me then there’s nothing more fun than browsing through lengthy European Union documents on taxation on a Sunday morning. But yes, that’s what I was doing, all because of a report in Gandul (link in Romanian) about how this country’s excise taxes are spent. In short, Romania collects about 1.5 billion lei (or about 350 million Euros) per year on excise taxes … Continue reading Rotten to the Core
https://twitter.com/Dalmaghi/status/348649667606740993 God bless Twitter (and Vine) is all I’m saying ;) Continue reading Americans wanting to be Romanians
In working on my iPad book (which had some technical errors and needed to be re-submitted – should be ready soon!), I was reminded of the curious fact that Iaşi was the capital of all of Romania from 1916-1918. That’s an interesting piece of trivia but quite frankly I never knew why the government left Bucharest for two years and moved en masse to Iaşi. … Continue reading Die Stadt Bukarest ist von meinen Truppen besetzt
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