Wow, I thought polls would be a bit gimmicky, but I was actually totally gripped by seeing democracy in action. I might live my whole life like this. It's like The Dice Man meets Pop Idol. Bowing to the majority, I've decided to keep the sign up, except following zenithblue 's lead I will now regard it as a reminder of the inconvenient but crucial fact ( Read more... )

When I was in Montenegro last year, I picked up one of those wooden house signs with a little saying on - you know, the kind that looks very twee in English but suddenly seems vaguely appealing in a foreign language. In cursive Cyrillic, it reads:

Боже благослови онога који улази у овај дом, заштити и сачувај онога који излази из њега и дај мир ( Read more... )