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The time has come to speak of many things...as Lewis Carrol would say and perhaps it isn't pure coincidence that he is quoted in this po...

I've always been out of Europe for the major tournaments. In 2006 I was stuck working while Sweden got knocked around by Germany and of ...

Its hard to really jump on Rushdie for anything that he's written. However with his latest offering I find myself a bit confused and wo...

When he leaves office, a certain someone will probably point to a country in South-Central Asia and claim that this is where he made a diffe...

I guess I sort of already knew what the movie was about through hearsay as well as having heard about it on the radio. Simple story, boy in ...

Since the World Bank and IMF not to mention the WTO have such amazing ideas I thought I would apply them to United States Armed Forces. The ...

Part I Bush is comparing the 'terrorists' to Nazis. It is impossible to compare the two groups of people. One was intent on genocide...

I finished Murakami's Norwegian Wood last wednesday. The more I read Murakami the more I am impressed with his writing. Of course I am s...

They had nuclear missiles in Moscow rolling down the streets for a parade a few days back. They were celebrating. Odd that some celebrations...

Well so I'm hard at work on this paper on Orcas but I managed to pick up a copy of Murakami's Norwegian Wood which I've had on r...

I finished a travel memoir about Australia today by Bill Bryson and I have to say it was hilarious. I would heartily recommend it to anyone ...

If three American Mercenaries shoot an old Iraqi man in a city somewhere in Iraq and no one is around to see it, does the old man even exist...

Tonight is the first official meeting of the LUMES film club. The idea behind the club is that the movies watched will in some ways be relev...

Last week there was a mention in the Swedish news that an ad by Absolut Vodka had offended some Americans. Then in Sweden it wasn't repo...

Well I tore my way through Rushdie and managed to finish it off at around three in the morning on Sunday. I have to say that I think this wa...

We all know that Bill Clinton dropped his droors in the oval office and let a certain Lewinsky blow Dixie on his magic troll flute. This bro...

Its been a while since I felt ready to plunge myself into one of Rushdie's bizarre worlds of tragedy and magical realism. Of course ever...

Another Hemingway novel that someone found in a used bookstore in London. This is always the best way to find books. When you least expect i...

This debate seems to come up every so often when North Americans hang around in Sweden long enough. Swedes call these small berries that gro...