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I seem to remember a few of my readers get excited over Czech girls. So here’s one for you:

ABC (Oz) The Shallow End - Miss World Czechs in

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I love it.

The Allen HQ Allen Blog (that would be George Allen of VA) - This Is Our Media

After a 6 week long tsunami of Page A1 and B1 stories on every smear, rumor and allegation they can find, the Washington Post has the temerity to write… […]

Categories: Politics

The British news is still crushingly tedious, but I’ve managed to tease out something worthwhile from all my time spent reading it:

Telegraph - Notebook by Simon Heffer (fourth item)

A cheaper way to get rid of pigeons Like most English taxpayers, I have long felt the Scottish Parliament has not wasted […]

Categories: Science and Nature

CTV - Harper forces debate on Mideast declaration

Members of the Francophonie summit have agreed to a compromise on a contentious resolution after Prime Minister Stephen Harper blocked the original proposal. The original wording of the resolution recognized Lebanon’s suffering in this summer’s 34-day conflict, but not Israel’s. […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Is there a sort of Inspector Morse Appreciation Society out there, that keeps track of the music featured on the show? Or, is there a classical music enthusiast among (amongst?) you that wants to run out and rent Who Killed Harry Field and tell me what that song is?

Categories: Entertainment

I’ve been getting onto Amazon a few times this morning getting links, and I just noticed this out of the corner of my eye, in the margins under “You recently viewed”, The Torment of Others, by Val McDermid (which I needed the link for for this post), with the blurb:

A serial killer is […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I’ve been hearing about this, but I finally looked at it:

Michelle Malkin - Malkin Derangement Syndrome

Someone stuck her head on a woman standing next to a fridge in a bikini with her tank top hiked up, supposedly from 1992 (not that anyone wore bikinis like that in 92, but someone’s already found it at Target). […]

Categories: People and Current Events

So, for my whole life, basically, my interest in going to the Minnesota/Michiganny parts of this country has registered in the negative numbers. The mosquitos, for one thing, the Fargo effect, for another. The funny accents, the weather, the weird department stores no one’s ever heard of. But now they’ve got this […]

Categories: People and Current Events

College Humor - One of many reasons a pro-life rally isn’t a great place to pick up women.

I think it’s meant to be funny. “Duuude, look at that idiot!” I think it’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen on video.

Categories: People and Current Events

Back in February, 2005, I transcribed this:

“Over my shoulder, a backward glance. This Paul Harvey was still in high school in Tulsa, OK, working evenings on KVOO, when the studios were in the top of the Philtower skyscraper. So I was on duty when the King of England, in love with an American […]

Categories: Business & Media

The Times - New friends, old problems The tortuous evolution of the EU’s latest converts

Two years after joining the EU, and 17 years after allowing the exodus of East Germans that precipitated the Soviet collapse, Hungary is in the throes of political crisis. Its Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, has admitted serial deceit about his […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

As unlikely as it sounds (I mean really, George W Bush having anything in common with “Dave” Cameron?!), this actually makes a lot of sense…

The Times - We’ll keep the stars and stripes flying here, by Gerard Baker If we end up with a Cameron v Brown personality contest, the Americanisation of our politics will be […]

Categories: Politics

Talk about a nation at a cross-roads. I guess my last story just tipped them over the edge. They’ve taken a right onto the interstate.

That photo just kills me. Remember the line from the last one,

When Kazakhstan’s democracy-shy president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, makes his stately progress to meet President Bush at […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It did cross my mind to make this the funniest item of the day, but then I rebuked myself: Climate change is a serious issue.

my comments - The Tale of Rueful Red and the Penitent Eco-Fascist

I didn’t get the chance to ask a question, I was in stitches by the finish, he really […]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Democratic Party just called with a recorded message asking me to make sure that everyone in my household was registered to vote, because by voting we can get change, especially on the war in Iraq, presumably by voting for the same Democrats that have represented us in DC and Olympia for time immemorial.

And two […]

Categories: People and Current Events