So I've spent the last two and a half weeks as an advance voting official babysitting a ballot box, informing people about the intricate dealings and functions of the Swedish voting system*, and of course receiving the ballots (I still wonder if Sweden is the one single country in the world where the actual voter isn't allowed to personally put the ( Read more... )

Just change "Norwegian" and "Oslo" to "Swedish" and "Stockholm" and you've in these few lines got one of the best analyses of politics around here I think I've seen in quite a while. Of course I'd never find such a text in a Swedish commentary.

"Denn auch sie ist schon seit gefühlten Ewigkeiten im Parlament dabei. Solberg sei eine typisch ( Read more... )

It's ten years on the day today and media is totally steeped in their self-obsession with it. Personally, I must shamefully admit that my main feeling is mostly a "it's been ten years already?" Time goes WAY too fast ( Read more... )

Yay, it's another election coming up! (Hey, bear with me, I'm Swedish. Having the opportunity to participate in elections outside September every fourth year is still a novelty for me.) Which means funny test results for the shameless election geek that I am. And yes, nighteevee, I've already used my voting privilege, so don't worry. Although had I known it ( Read more... )

Meme task from dzioo and such a good excuse for me to talk.

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. (You may also comment without committing to doing something of your own, I'm nice today.)

( Ramblings on Cagalli, politics, fanfiction, shadow, and shyness )

I'm actually kind of surprised how busy my autumn has been this far. Oh well, I suppose I at least shouldn't complain about that. (Of course, it had been better if my current busy-ness (business? So that's where the word comes from...) had had more to do with income generation and less with studies... But I guess you can't get everything.) It could ( Read more... )

Because the headline caught my eye by succeeding in having that humourous cynical wit I so love.

Call me a liberal, a leftist, or even an anti-capitalist if you want - for once I don't mind -, but this doesn't really has anything to do with any of that; my total approval of this editorial is entirely based on - what do they call it - oh yes, ( Read more... )

Oh my god! My not exactly tech-savvy parents and their elderly neighbour discussed and had an opinion on the FRA law! I'm shocked, sort of.

Info note for the non-Swedes: The FRA law is a new law proposal giving the military intelligence the power to listen in on communications to and from Sweden going in cables (and not like earlier only the over ( Read more... )

It's multiple election day again and I'm bored, which means political webtests time again.

( Warning. Political pic spam behind this link. Well, sort of, at least. )

Politics again. I'm sorry, but it triggered too many of my pet peeves to let it be.

( Contempt for the courts? You bet. )