Category: Argumentation

Being a member of our "Tweede Kamer" certainly does pay off well, both literally and figuratively. The pay is nice, the holidays are fixed and ample and when you do not feel like doing something useful, hide in the back. Resigning from the Tweede Kamer also has it’s advantages: the pay between jobs also is substantiable. However, I’m not going

People living in the randstad in the Netherlands, tend to underestimate the rest of the country, as it just is not the Randstad. Anything beyond the large urban conglomerate spanning from Amsterdam to Utrecht and Rotterdam is not up to speed, and less developed. I’m not in favor of this snobbish attitude towards (17-7)/17*100 = 59% of the Netherlands, but

If you are Dutch, you most certainly know them: SGP. The abbreviation stands for "Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij", a very strict party of reformed Christians. Recently they made all the headlines as the state-funding of the party was cut off, due to the fact women cannot be a participating member of the party, nor will they ever be as party-regulations clearly

Without complaining too much about our perverted present society, I would like us to focus on the recent developments regarding us blindly following hypes. I intend to keep it short, on purpose since the average duration of attention on any subject is decreasing. The zapper-generation is here, and here to stay! All, so called, news has to be compact, easy

This morging was only slightly different compared to others: traffic was bad. This time it was 525KM bad at it’s peak, a few minutes past 9 in the morning. We Dutchies have always been very good at complaining about any- and everything. Weather, immigrants, politicians, the national football-coach, the neighbors and the traffic. True, all named above do have flaws,

At some point in your life, you have to decide whether to rent a home, or to buy a house. For 54% of us Dutchmen the choice has been to buy a house, as CBS shows us, about 43% of the estimated 6.9 million houses is rented. For me, the choice is not that hard: I like the idea of

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it happened. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 has been awarded to a guy dedicated to telling us how bad we are for the environment, and what disasters we have spelled upon us. Each year the Nobel Prizes are awarded to people and organizations who have made considerable contributions to their field of

In contradiction to what you may think, I’m not going to fulminate on how people living on a pay equal or slightly above minimum wage are not putting in enough effort and as a result only get low wages. I am going to talk to you about this group of people though, yet the lower effort comes not from the

As all Dutch know, this time the country is led by mr. Balkenende, in a coalition with mr. Bos and mr. Rouvoet. They are responsible for a hoax of new rules, which all tend to contribute to a set of social rules, known as "Normen en Waarden", standards and values in English. These standards and values are inspired by the