Nothing much new happening lately. I went out to the pub on Friday and had a proper St. Patrick's day, so today and Saturday I just decided to lay low and relax before Monday. Hanging around, I've realized that certain parts of my apartment (like the carpet under my bed) are disgusting and I need to buy a vacuum cleaner. I also need to buy some dish rags because I've been going through paper towels like Howard Hughes went through Kleenex (very un-German of me.)
Also, I did finally get around to uploading the political cartoons from my first class with Osterhus. I apologize for the poor quality of the scans; I still haven't figured out how to resize images for optimal quality.

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Ludwig Erhard, great coordinator of the German post-war "economic wonder." Here he is, dapper and well-fed, rising triumphantly from a pile of bombed-out buildings:


France and Germany wrestling over the Saarland:


Depiction of life in and outside of the 'Green Zone.' Tough break, little Easterner: