Over the last two months, we've seen the so called "yellow vest" riots underway in France.  It's become so routine that the media have grown tired of reporting it, or maybe they don't like to tell us how citizens are reacting to tax increases over climate change. Over the weekend, I saw this.  It looks like the vests have some imitators in Riga, Latvia, according to this AP report: Earlier Saturday, activists in Latvia staged a picket in front of the French embassy in Riga, the capital of the small Baltic EU country, to support the yellow vest movement and urge Latvians to demand higher living standards. The activists waved Latvia's red-and-white flag, shouting slogans like "the French have woken up, while Latvians remain asleep." Very interesting.  This story also reminds me of a conversation that I had a few weeks ago with a new student from Latvia attending a local community college. After...(Read Full Post)