Doris writes for a change!

So this is Doris writing for a change. As Mike is keeping you abreast of our every move, I want to add a more political issue: not a day goes by that the news here is not full of the NSA surveillance of ordinary Germans. Germans of all political stripes feel betrayed by the US and feel their only means to counter the most powerful US government is by granting “partial” asylum to Snowden. Across the spectrum, he is hailed as an example of the increasingly rare breed of “the good American.” The other issue in the media here of course is the Zimmerman verdict. Incomprehensible by any European standards that an ordinary citizen can legally arm himself, shoot and kill an unarmed, underage man and – get acquitted.