General Misc.

Whenever I hear politicians or pundits talk about the American people making sacrifices I think of store parking lots and the enormous sacrifice shoppers routinely choose not to make. I’m talking about returning one’s shopping cart to a shopping cart corral. Sometimes it’s an arduous six feet journey, sometimes it’s a 100 feet death march [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton’s blatant lie that she had to contend with sniper fire or the threat of sniper fire when she landed Tusla in Bosnia in 1996 could be seen as an example of her rotten, devilish, say-anything, no-good soul. That’s not how I think of the Senator, and I that’s not what I think [...]

Here are a few pictures my dad took last summer in the Old Country. A couple of birds were released into the wild by Nordens Ark, an organization that works to preserve and strengthen endangered species.

The United States Census Bureau announced yesterday that the data has been quarterly updated on USA Counties where you can find 5,900 data items for the United States, the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), and all of the nation’s 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Have fun.

De’ fanns plenty of brännvin när kom men när vi gick då var det slut. Amanda gångar sig ut i lunden där får hon se att en ko står bunden Amanda gångar sig hem igen slår upp en nubbe och tömmer den

For some reason Americans don’t like to put ketchup on their spaghetti and they seem to recoil at the thought of spaghetti and ketchup sans extras as a legitimate course. Back in the Old Country we labored under the impression that Americans pour ketchup on everything – maybe that’s mostly a Mid-Western thing – so [...]

Here are a couple of pictures of a multi-car accident at of the Burlington exits on I-95 South yesterday. It didn’t look too serious, although a small number of emergency vehicle – a firetruck, an ambulance, a couple of cop cars – were at the scene.

It tastes like… America. And it helps you beat the heat, too.