The FREAK-est Links
Germany had good intentions when it began hoarding solar panels.(HT: Saad Abdali)
Hemingway’s haunt offers charity to American subprime victims.(Earlier)
Student of law and economics gives it up for a career in fast food and amazing videos.(HT: David Black)
Are male geishas the new handbag?
Maryann
re: male geishas, there is a great documentary called The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493420/) on this subject. You find out late in the film -- SPOILER -- that the patrons interviewed aren't highly paid female executives, but prostitutes who ply their trade so as to afford male geisha companionship.