Tag: liberia

Aren’t jobs a kind of bribery?

Corruption is on the rise according to a survey by Transparency International.

The Berlin-based nonprofit organization based this partially on a finding that one quarter of 91,500 surveyed people paid a bribe to an institution or government-provided service. 90 percent of Liberians and 86 percent of Nigerians reported paying a bribe.

And the most corrupt countries–Somalia, Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Sudan and Turkmenistan–achieved their most corrupt nations’ status by attempting to bribe Transparency International for better rankings.

No more monkey business

We’ve talked about eating monkey meat in the past and clearly some people don’t get it. Yes, eating your fallen enemy can be quite gratifying, but it’s not all that safe.

More so, if you want to eat monkey in the U.S., you need to have a permit for it. A Liberian woman is claiming in court that she has been smuggling monkey meat into the country under the First Amendment. There some Christians eat monkeys for spiritual reasons. This, of course, is a really stupid argument, but entertaining nonetheless.

So as a helpful reminder, think of monkey meat as a gun, you need a permit for it, and it can kill you.