Archive for September, 2004

Jag kan tänka mig att det finns tre skäl att vara för ett turkiskt EU-medlemskap: 1) Aningslös mångkulturalism. Mångkulturalismen är en form av överhöghetsideologi som utgår ifrån att de brutala öden som mångkulturella samhällen gått till mötes omöjligen kan drabba Europa. Således är det bara friskt och spännande och skoj att packa in så många [...]

Nog för att personalcheferna i National Football League har en tendens att hellre köra med det gamla beprövade än att satsa på någon ny, men det här är ju direkt löjligt: Titans har kontrakterat den snudd på mumifierade Gary Anderson. Du minns kanske Anderson från när han spelade med Mayflower Puritans… Samtidigt sitter Ola Kimrin [...]

Konversation på en hårsalong i Boston: Kvinna A: “My husband just realized we have the NFL channel on our cable system.” Kvinna B (äldre dam av polsk härkomst): “My husband and I love that channel! We can watch all the plays from the weekend games!” Klart som tusan att man gillar National Football Leagues egen [...]

Swedish single-issue pundit Per Ahlmark, your basic cross between WaPo columnist Charles Krauthammer and the Swedish Chef, is endorsing president George W Bush’s bid for reelection. Not that Ahlmark cares much for our man from Texas, whom he views as a misogynist, homophobe tax cutter (who supports the death penatly to boot!). Ahlmark, however, is [...]

Harvard University’s endowment has once again surpassed $20 billion thanks to a hefty 21.1% return on its investments, pushing the total worth to $22.6 billion. I’m sure the school appreciates the good news (although it can probably do without the nagging about the compensation structure for its fund managers), especially as the Ivy League’s good [...]

Last night I went to a radio music focus group sponsored by some of Boston’s finest radio stations (hrmpf). Anyway, we were some 120 white guys aged 25 – 35 (that’s my estimate, at least), crammed into two conference rooms at a hotel in Cambridge (that’s Cambridge, Massachusetts). This was not one of those touchy [...]

American Spectator claims that John Kerry’s bid for President is in a bit of disarray and floundering for a message that will give him an edge in the campaign: According to several Kerry and DNC sources, Kerry advisers have been furiously holding focus group meetings in an attempt to find some issue of national concern [...]

The big screen interpretation of H.G. Bissinger’s classic “Friday Night Lights” is rolling out next month. FNL is the true story of the pride of Odessa, TX, the Permian High School’s football team. Thanks to community-wide support and an incredible dedication to the game of football, Permian managed to punch way above its weight for [...]

Hilarious article in Boston Herald: Posters of a scantily clad, vampireish blonde promoting a Masquerade Ball for local “vampries” have been plastered on walls around Salem, MA, home of the infamous Salem Witch Trials and in 1692. The Herald quotes a self-described witch as saying: “This is stirring up the hotbed of sex in Salem.” [...]

Yes, the Neww England Patriots did win the season opener against the Indianapolis Colts, and, yes, pundits at ESPN and Sports Illustrated seem to think that the Pats won simply because they couldn’t possibly lose against the Colts. In reality, Colts pretty trampled the Patriots run defense. The home team gave up 202 yards on [...]