Germany Wants a Divorce

Posted by Holden at First-Draft (another blog I've only just discovered):

Germany wants a divorce.

Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.

The results of the poll, published Saturday, reflected die-hard animosities over high reunification costs lowering western standards of living and economic turmoil in the east.

See? Reagan dies, and everything just falls right apart. ::chortle::