#10. Super Big Gulp

Europeans love human rights campaigns, especially if those campaigns are somehow related to ending hunger. That is all well and good. Few things, after all, are more tragic than hunger. But as any traveler who has been to Europe can confirm, Europeans completely ignore the logical companion of such programs: ending thirst. I don’t mean [...]

Obama & the European hospitality snub

When the CEOs of America’s biggest banks came by the White House last Friday, the President’s team faced an interesting challenge: how to subtly overcome the inherent honor of a White House visit and communicate to the CEO’s that they are in big trouble. The solution they came up with: skip the normal White House [...]