Tonight, we start: we board the night train to Rome at 9.03 p.m. at Munich Central Station! We were going to ride our bikes through Switzerland during the second week...

Incidentally, FDP party Chief Birgit Homburger said yesterday that we might think about an increase of one or the other now reduced added value tax rate. But additional tax burdens...

I just read that Horst Köhler has resigned. After having worked on this post yesterday, I was going to put some finishing touches to it today. Due to current developments,...

Humans never generate problems they themselves cannot solve, says Marx. And Friedrich Hölderlin thinks that where there is danger, the potential for averting it grows. Today is the annually recurring...

Why are we so horror-stricken after the environmental catastrophe at the Gulf of Mexico? Because we can see the damage! Yet there are things happening that are just as bad,...

By rights, the title of this article should be: Vote. Now! :-( But wordpress does not give me the red colour for a headline. Like all the others, the June...

Self-Reflections Here are some texts by Mark Aurel I heard this morning (Saturday) on the radio program “Bayerisches Feuilleton” on “Bayern 2”. Wonderfully declaimed by Martin Hofer, they were the...

When our forefathers started making their homes - or rather their caves - their castles, it was not possible for them to improve their knowledge and competence in a hurry....