Archive for July, 2005

I finally got around to watching Kill Bill (Volume One) the other day, and, just for the record, it’s freaking awful. The Chinese rope-powered martial air-ballet is one of the most awful concepts in movie history, along with the butt-kicking babe. Kill Bill, of course, relies heavily on both. Imagine a contemporary remake of “The [...]

IKEA’s new store in Stoughton is now hiring and surely you don’t mind if I put on my Old Country* hat for a second to enthuse about the company’s culture and management practices. Swedish companies haven’t always covered themselves in glory around here. Think “The Astra Way.” Think Metro. IKEA is nothing like that. IKEA [...]

Wellesley High has decided to cut back on that whole school thing so that its seniors can devote more time to non-competetive basketball and Tsunami relief efforts. The move is applauded by the Dean of admissions at MIT: In April, Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, addressed Wellesley parents and [...]

Blah blah blah Department of Justice blah blah blah Boston blah blah blah elections blah blah blah Spanish blah blah blah “undocumented translations” blah blah blah.

For an inexpensive, intense, full-body workout, why not go out in the woods with some friends and beat the crap out of some people you don’t like?

Ranking Swedish Open Border Lunatic Johan Norberg likes Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat” (I’m saddened by the way Creationist-type thinking is spreading), but with some reservations: Granted, sometimes he is a bit too shallow, you get exhausted by reading about all his “friends” in important places and with his way of substituting slogans and [...]

MySpace, whose juvenile users frequently lift material from other websites without asking for permission or even sending courtesy links in return, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for a shocking $580 million. The price-tag reminds me of that hapless German publishing company – Snookered + Dumb – who bought Fast Company for a [...]

Roland Poirer Martinsson gillar inte den här artikeln i Aftonbladet som enligt honom “är så belamrad med fel och fördomar att jag inte ens ska börja kommentera den. Läs den själva som ett exempel på tidningens nästan osannolika ryggmärgspropaganda och dess galaktiska brist på professionalitet.” Jag håller inte med honom. På tabloidsvenska är det fullt [...]

President George W. Bush pretty much did an end-around on all the speculation on whom he’d nominate for the Supreme Court when he picked supposedly-conservative judge John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. Roberts is touted by right-wingers as a judge in Scalia’s mold. One can only hope that turns out to be the case.

German weekly Der Spiegel reports on the race-religious wars in southern Mexico, where whites, mestizos, indians, catholics, protestants, and, increasingly, muslims are vying for power.