Money has corrupted the leaders of the Jewish state, says Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz (Tel Aviv. Haaretz is the top newspaper in Israel). The recent conviction of former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who took around $220,000 in bribes from real estate developers while mayor of Jerusalem, is just the latest case in point. Olmert had …
The Europeans have it right. You go to a restaurant and the service charge is included on the check. Simple and unstressful. In America people can’t even decide who should be tipped and who should not. In New York a 20% tip is expected, where I live it is 15 – 18%. Should you tip …
Long before the days of the Roman Empire weapons were banned in temples. These were places of safety, reflection and peace. The christian church has for centuries followed this ancient societal consensus, and nowhere, to the best of my knowledge, even during the horrors of the Tutsi massacres, have weapons been taken into churches (despite …
People all over the world seem to be indifferent to the likely effect that robots will have on huge working populations. Let us be quite clear: robots, whether making cars, computers or washing machines are a capitalist’s dream. They work twenty four hours a day, never need a toilet stop or a gossip at the …
Current discoveries about the universe, or universes, pose a big question. If the furthest we can see are the galaxies 13.72 billion light years away from Earth (almost to the galaxies created in the first instance of the Big Bang), how can God get about this massive universe in time to make sure it doesn’t …
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