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I’m surprised that Ester’s surprised that Fatah burned a Danish flag. Denmark’s foreign policy may be sympathetic, and they sometimes talk a good talk about tolerance, but in practice many Danes who were horrified by the rise of the xenophobe-wing Folkeparti were still crap at cultural and identity politics. I have fond memories of attempting […]
Mexico finally made it illegal for a husband to rape his wife, hoorah!
I was honorably mentioned in the t-shirt slogan contest, w00t!
This morning I woke up to a total fucker of a charley horse. My leg still hurts, boo.
Newly responsible for the untimely demise of my graduate career: Cities
Canada’s specially-designed Hans Island flag smushed; clearly Mother Nature recognizes Danish sovereignty:
Like the Inukshuk, the flag left behind is unique, designed for the mission and constructed and assembled in secrecy.
The idea was to erect a flag that would always be unfurled, similar to the U.S. flags left behind on the moon. Making it from metal […]
Denmark plans to reassert its sovereignty over Hans Island, which’s ownership is also claimed by spunky upstart Canada:
The Arctic patrol cutter Tulugaq will attempt to reach the 1.3-square-kilometre Hans Island, which is claimed by both countries, in late August if the ice permits, navy spokesman Alex Jensen said.
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“If we manage to reach the island, we […]
Remember Haiti? The one with the coup (which we will not at all suggest was supported by our own Federal Democratic Republic because that would have been undemocratic) that is already retro-chic even though it happened less than a month ago?
Haiti is still fucked. No, really, fucked. Just FYI.
The problem with listening to news on […]
Just in case you’re thinking of using the “Al Qaeda wuvs you!” line of political attack: a letter received by the London-based quotidien Al-Qods Al-Arabi claims that Al Qaeda does, in fact, wuv widdle Georgie:
En fait, il n’y a pas de diff rence entre toi et Kerry mais les d mocrates […]
Eugene Volokh wonders if we should ignore the decisions of other countries when we think they might be influenced by terrorism:
The foreign countries’ decisions may simply be probative of their own desire not to be attacked, not of what’s the morally right thing to do in the abstract, or what’s the practically right thing to […]
I have two immediate reactions to this whole “Pim Fortuyn being murdered” thing.
It’s really easy to find rhymes or near-rhymes for a name like Pim, which makes this a very good candidate for a limerick in poor taste.
Did Pim have a partner? I’m reminded of a recent election in Missouri - you know, the one […]
… will be a few Danish commiserators. You see, last year when it became clear that Bush was ultimately going to slip into the White House, I vowed to spend these four years totally piss drunk. Crap political news is much easier to handle that way, I think, and now that the paranoid loonies are […]
Oh, wait, now I remember! It’s election season here in Denmark, and the campaign posters have just sprouted like mushrooms after a good rain. Some of them even sprouted in my mailbox, apparently ignorant of the fact that a temporary residence permit does not a voter make. One of them, put out by the Venstre […]