It is a lot harder to be flippant with the numbers and the time aspects and the chain of events start coming in, but let me express the annoyance with self-absorbed Norwegian media anyway: After airing live news broadcast continually for 24+ hours, the daily news magazine is an expanded version that is, for fuck's sake, fully devoted to the attacks ( Read more... )

It was requested and I'm about to leave for Finland for the next thirty hours or so. This might be edited and unlocked after that. Please note that my familiarity with the actual theory is weak; I've just read a lot of analysis from the angle and should probably not be talking about it, but it might at least make for an amusing read? You're all ( Read more... )

Then there is the whole question of Italy. Berlusconi has strengthened his support and is a threat to civil liberties. He controls the media, and the left are weak and powerless against him. He is not far-right in the sense that Hitler was far-right, but he is a threat to democracy. Italy has become a western-European equivalent of the sort of ( Read more... )

Oh hai duokai, we weren't the only ones.

Scares the crap out of me, and I'm not sure if it's the gender perspective or the consumerism that's worse.

You know, I really don't care if Yoshino becomes the first girl to take her Digimon to one of the ultimate modes, because that's not the point. Compared to Izumi, Yolei, Sora, Mimi and Jeri, of course she's going to come out looking stronger and more assertive. She's also seven years older than them ( Read more... )

The moment you get defensive and declare that you "don't consider yourself a feminist", I stop listening to what you are saying. No, that is not me being prejudiced, that is you exhibiting an impressive lack of history.