France and Germany have agreed to jointly block Facebook’s new crypto- currency, Libra. According to Reuters, “In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations.” Bravo to France and Germany!

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Although it’s entirely subjective, I think the funniest event in human history happened on February 3rd, 1969, when Allen Funt boarded a plane. Funt –  whose name is already objectively funny – was the host of Candid Camera, the hidden camera show that played pranks on the public. Unbeknownst to him or anyone else, two…

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One of the many, many unpleasant things about the rightwards trend in modern politics is that we have to engage with things we’d rather not. The Nazis were unpleasant enough when they were just the bad guys in an Indiana Jones movie; now that they’re walking through the streets with placards it’s all a bit…

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