Aerar

(German version published on 6 November, 2009)
The discussion about criteria of relevance (German), deletion of articles (German) and the culture of discussion (German) within the Wikipedia has been theme within the net community for a while now (German). Though I have dealt with this topic myself already I want to summarize my answers to [...]

(German version published on 30 Oktober, 2009)
Today Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) has been elected as President of Thürigen but just in the ithird ballot (German). Naturally this reminds to the debacel of Heide Simonis in Schleswig-Holstein. That in both cases women have been affected seems to be accidently as in both cases the political situation was [...]

(German version published on 28 Oktober, 2009)
Already in 2006 it was said that 98% of the households had a TV set (German). Assumgly it will not have become significantly less since. I always thought it was due to some German ideal of justice that the GEZ spent 164,4 Millionen Euro a year to encash the [...]

(German version published on 28 Oktober, 2009)
In my quarter there are only few parking spaces and one of these few is since more than a month widely marked by two signs as an area of absolute parking restriction. Considering the lack of parking facilities the residents soon did not take the restriction too serious anymore. [...]

(German version published on 28 Oktober, 2009)
Is it impossible for “quality media” to resist catching the focus of their readers by cloudy headlines? Especially when the reader just reads his feedreader he is left behind with open questions if he does not visit the complete article on the website.
So Focus Online titles: Eine Stimme [...]

(German version published on 27 Oktober, 2009)
Now also from me some small thoughts about the dissuasion madness. The last bigger case was the negative PR which Jack Wolfskin produced with its dissuations (German). Before them it were the president of the DFB Theo Zwanziger (German), the Deutsche Bahn (German), Jako (German) and others who attracted [...]

(German version published on 24 Oktober, 2009)
Now we know what the new Cabinet of the coming black and yellow government will look like. I will state comments of myself at the end of this post but there are overviews and comments for example also at SPON (German), Stern online (German) with a page for each [...]

This blog is the English translation of “Aerar - Der Gemeinplatz der Politik” which is reporting recent events and thoughts on German politics. As the original blog is in German language I did not find the time lately to translate every post to English. But recently I observed a (slightly) increasing interest in this blog [...]