SVT Accidentally Publishes that The Pirate Bay Party Acquitted
Major fail! SVT, Sweden’s Television station publishes two articles: one that the Pirate Bay is guilty and the other that they are innocent. Here is the image below. A translation will follow. Pirate...
View ArticleTake the Quiz! Find out What is Your Swedish Political Party
On September 19th, 2010 millions of Swedes and voting adults will take to the polls and vote on the national election for Parliament (riksdag). The newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, created a fun quiz to help...
View ArticleThe Case For and Against Sverigedemokraterna
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a...
View ArticleSmelling Pickled Herring in the Wikileaks Arrest
When Wikileaks released the nearly 400,000 documents about the Iraq war, I was ambivalent. I did not like the idea of innocent civilians being exposed and possibly killed because of the information...
View ArticleWar and Peace at the Nobel Ceremony
It’s that time of year again, Swedish Christmas decoration, endless supplies of glögg, and the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. Most notably is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Liu Xiaobao,...
View ArticleStockholm’s First Suicide Bomber &“Parliament Princess” Douchebaggery
Yesterday a suicide bomber blew himself up on Drottningatan at the end of the shopping day in central Stockholm city. In what appears to be a terrorist attack, this marks the first terrorist attack in...
View ArticleThe S******** Word
I’ve been surfing funny things the past week in an effort to cheer myself up and give a respite from reality. Thank you all who have written lovely comments on my previous post. I’ll share more later...
View ArticleHappy (Illegal) Holiday!
Today is Constitution Day. I have no idea what that means except Constitution Day was passed over 100 years but strengthened in 2005; sometime during the abyss of the Bush years. Constitution Day is...
View ArticleChaos in Husby & Stockholm Suburbs – Interview with Rami Al-Khamisi of Megafone
What started as a hostage situation with an elderly man armed with a machete, has ended in massive car fires and destruction of property by protesters in Husby and its neighboring suburbs. It is...
View ArticleThe United States is Closed
If you are currently visiting the United States on vacation and are hoping to see the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln Memorial, or even Alcatraz, well, sad news, they are all closed. That’s because of the...
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