Somewhere in Europe...

Early Friday morning a man was spotted at the train station in Lund. He was dressed in a black jacket and was carrying a duffel bag. He looked as if he were about to begin an adventure. The cold november air surrounded him as he shuffled up and down the platform trying to keep warm. When the Oresund train finally put in five minutes late as usual, this man borded it and wasn't seen in Lund again for the remainder of the weekend. I suppose he is off visiting someone he loves and having that adventure. Hope he's got a pipe to smoke and a nice book to read on the buss.

Women and Men

Imagine you are a woman(for some of you this won't be so hard). You are gang raped 14 times by a group of seven men. When your situation comes up in court, you are not viewed as a victim but instead as a perpetrator. Your sentence is six months imprisonment and 200 lashes. The men's sentences range from one year to five years. Seems far out and completely strange, at least from a scandinavian perspective doesn't it. Then the truth comes out. This just happened in Saudi Arabia. The glorious allies of a certain oil addicted nation in the northern hemisphere with a little white hut in a town designed by the French when they were friends. With friends like these who needs enemies?

Mr. Brown, Anti-American, and the little island that could...

Gordon Brown has now announced that he is not anti-american. This from an article at the BBC homepage. Good for him. Its nice to know that he is willing to be friends with a country that is much like his own in some ways. They are both interested in ruling the planet(in an economic sense not in a traditional colonial sense although Irag, Afghanistan, and Puerto Rico would likely have a problem with this theory). Both countries' governments don't seem to have that big of a problem with pollution or the rabid consumerism that plagues western culture(not that the mainland has done much better). They are also in bed together on the Iraq war(spooning is more correct) and it would look quite bad if these two life partners suddenly had a break up and one decided to favor the EU(which would give it a better economical chance considering it is the biggest market in the world and the US may very well be fading off into the sunset of history). Both countries have had hard times getting used to the fact that indeed the whole world is 1. not envious of their success 2. most of the world would prefer their own language as oppossed to the cultural hegemony that persists from these two and 3. would like an apology from them for their military and economical bullying for the last couple of centuries. If Mr. Brown likes to stay in bed with Bush and the Yanks that is fine, but the rest of us should be warned that they aren't exactly going to pass their next physical either.

Just an update thats all.

Call the fire trucks, call the media, tell everyone but don't tell your mother. The beast is awake and breathing. There are sightings all over the map. The North! The North! It came from the North! It twisted and our earth shook. Trees were uprooted and the lakes became rivers and reached their slender fingers to the boiling, salted drink that is the sea. Call the riot squads and tell Nato.

The hero is alive though he is bogged down in the beauracracy that is education. C'est la vie. Three courses in and counting....