In local news: Husband and wife are going through a messy divorce. Husband is about to go on a business trip to the US. Wife takes ill and asks him to cancel the trip to take care of the kids. Husband says no. Wife's parents call husband and threaten him with various nasty things if he doesn't cancel the trip. He still says no ( Read more... )

Strange ad found in newspaper #1: A wedding picture in which the bride is sitting on the ground, hugging the groom's legs. Say what? I'm kind of amazed that neither bride, groom or photographer apparently found anything wrong with that idea. Do you really want your wedding picture to say, "Don't gooooo! I neeeeeeed you! I can't stand uuuuuuup ( Read more... )

In November last years, three Swedish citizens of Somalian descent who were in charge of the Swedish offices for the bank Al-Barakaat were put on the "terror list" and had their bank accounts and other assets frozen. They were not charged or even suspected of any crime, there was no trial, it was completely "guilt by association" and nobody denied ( Read more... )

Okay, so there's this international court for war crimes starting up, and the US government won't approve of it unless they get the right to veto the court's decisions. So what they're actually saying is "our boys should be entitled to do whatever they want, including war crimes". I add this to my very long list of why George W scares the living ( Read more... )