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Why I Still Love Merrie England
because the BBC can still have headlines like these online:
Lords Warn About Calais Fencing
Which sounds like something that might have appeared in the Greenwych Tymes circa 1500 or so.
It's actually an article about Britain's concern over its borders. Like the US and most of Europe, "illegal" immigration numbers are high, and also like the US, ( Read more... ) -
what passes as journalism these days.
I must have missed the post-feminist memo. Apparently, my inability to rotate 3-D objects in my head makes me not only an idiot, but a second-class citizen. Good to know, Washington Post. -
a disclaimer
Please bear in mind that all these European recollections are just reconstructions, which may or may not bear strict resemblance to reality. This is mostly because I spent a good deal of my European time underneath the influence of something. And, to illustrate that point, the companion photo for this topic is in fact Pete Doherty being arrested ( Read more... ) -
small joys of londontown.
The singular thing that London has over pretty much the rest of the world, and every other European major transport system in particular, is the legality of drinking on the Underground ( Read more... ) -
Madrid, again.
The morning we moved into a hotel in the suburbs, some well-tended neighborhood known as Arturo Soria on the 15-line, I had rolled out of bed and dressed by groping in the dark at the first things on top of my suitcase, trying to not wake the two ridiculously rich Mexican guys in the beds below mine, because they had the habit of hitting on me ( Read more... ) -
Last Updated 32 Weeks Ago!
So it's been awhile. The everlasting politco-media circus gallavants around us still. More importantly, I never bothered to post a single thing about having spent, oh, 5 out of 7 months in 2007 living in various places that weren't America. How do you go back and reflect on seven months worth of ridiculous all at once ( Read more... ) -
Illiteracy! Filibusters! And other awesome adventures!
Remember what I said last summer, about my illiteracy/lack of will to write, that lame cop out as to why I don't post on this thing when I have better things to do? Something about the Muses attacking ( Read more... ) -
I think I wrote this while crossfaded about three weeks ago.
This is an analogy I read over at another blog (I think it was Shakespeare's Sister) about growing up in a sexist country: it's like being constantly whacked with a wiffle bat everywhere you turn. And occasionally the bat is real, and metal, and it hurts ( Read more... ) -
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p.s.
Be glad that Conservapedia is constantly being edited! I checked back, and now the entry for "slavery" actually resembles something somewhat respectable, and most of the not-so-thinly veiled racism has been eliminated. hooray! (?) -
oakland blackouts
Imagine this ( Read more... )