Archive for November, 2005

28-year old Swedish soldier Jesper Lindblom was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last Friday. Three other Swedish soldiers were wounded by the blast, one of them is still in critical condition. Lindblom was a marine ranger when he joined the secretive elite unit Särskilda skyddsgruppen (SSG) in 1999. Sweden currently has some 100 [...]

The answer is no, they should not (deci-jokingly one could add “if for no other reason that we’d have no professors at all if we did that”). Consequently, I don’t feel any particular joy over the news that a pro-fragging community college professor in California has resigned after making some outrageously anti-American comments in an [...]

Here’s one of those stories that make my fellow rightwingers fall into Victorian-style swoons: The school superintendent whose district includes Mount Anthony Union High School has labeled “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” an English teacher’s use of liberal statements in a vocabulary quiz. “I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there [...]

Most teams in the National Football League would roll up in a ball and cry their way through the season if they had to endure the devastating injuries that have hammered the New England Patriots this year. Fortunately, the Patriots aren’t like most other teams. Instead of folding, they keep on fighting. With their 24-17 [...]

Highly unusual but very welcome news out of Pennsylvania, where federal agents detained over 100 illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, at a Wal-Mart construction site. Best of all, a local official chucks the typical Chamber-of-Commerce-bullshit about how great it is with “migrant” labor and instead serves up some God-honest truth: At least 120 illegal immigrants, [...]

Our overlord, His Highness Mayor For Life, has finally decided that it’s ridiculous to waste resources on protecting the city’s residents, when what is really called for is monitoring them by placing sophisticated surveillance cameras throughout the city. Nothing good will come out of this. If the cameras reduce crime, we’ll be told we need [...]

Here’s a rather lengthy clip from an unspecified but not exactly unusual altercation in Sweden (this one happens to take place in northern Sweden, but it could happen anywhere). Nice summer evening + people + alcohol = bad stuff! Swedes drink too much. It’s a bit difficult to make out what’s going on in the [...]

I have this idea that the phrase “African-Americans” should be used to refer only to descendents of slaves in the United States. In other words, while both Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are black, only the former is an African-American. If it turns out that Americans want to call all blacks in America African-American, then [...]

I have no idea who this Heath Evans guy is, but, wow, thanks, stranger! Holy cow. 17 carries for 84 yards, most of them in the first half when the Pats desperately everything they got, plus a successful two-point conversion. Ben Watson’s game-winning catch in end zone would have been the catch of the game [...]

Sad. But I salute the kid who said this: “I’m inspired by people going to war.”