To be honest, I’m almost out the door. I’m gonna grab my Little Rib and then we’re off to California for the weekend. We will trade in the wonderful fireworks of Las Vegas for a couple of relaxing days by the ocean. Actually we are pretty happy with the trade. Last year we went to […]

Jürgen asked me to wish you all a Merry Christmas and, as they say in Germanyland, a good slide into the next year! Unfortunately he won’t be able to post anything for the next two weeks since he will be on his well deserved vacation. But he will be back January 8th. And he will […]

Found at A Peoples Cube
In an unprecedented twist following the Iraqi elections, a newly formed Iraqi resistance group calling itself “Swords of Democracy” has demanded that all Western left-wing journalists and anti-war activists currently in Iraq must cease their activities, leave the country within 24 hours, and stop their incessant anti-American propaganda, or […]

I forgot to mention that I went to see King Kong last weekend. When the loooong movie was over, so was the weekend. But I liked it. (No, I did not cry!)
Now, I heard about a silly accusation that the movie has a racial undertone. I must have missed it, although, there is a scene […]

Don’t you just love all the special effects in the mainstream media? Forget Hollywood, forget King Kong, NEWSWEEK is leading the way in creating realities so precise, so detailed, once you get sucked into their world it’s tricky to find your way back home.
Remember the story about Korans being flushed down the toilets in Guantanamo? […]

…a massive wall, an Anti-Terror-Wall like Israel does. But without gates, just embrasures.

Post-Christian Europe will also be post-European. If you’re cool with that, fine. If you’re not, you might want to rethink the lazy slurs about America’s ‘neo-fascist’ religiosity. Merry Christmas!
Mark Steyn
(via Der Weisse Hai)

Last night during dinner my Little Rib (that’s what I call my better half) informed me nonsensitively: “Your legs are too short.”
I couldn’t get the fork out of my mouth fast enough. “Excuse me?”
“Your legs are too short.”
“What makes you think that?”
“I have eyes. I noticed it the first time I saw you.”
“Oh really? It […]