One more way in which Germans are bad but not as bad as the French

In his (her?) invaluable Guide to Occupied Germany, Ami has found space amidst the detailed exposé of German media representations and misrepresentations of the Iraq issue and of German/US relations more generally for an equally vital (if subtly different) topic: dog poop. This is a far more important indicator of German culture than you might think. Get you hence, and be enlightened.

(Ami is, unusually, wrong about one thing: that there are a lot of GIs in Germany. Sure, 70,000 might seem a lot; but some of us still recall the 70s and 80s, when there were... well, a squadrillion or so. And of course, there were even more a few decades before that....)