That election saw the defeat of a right-wing coalition which, allied with the far-right Danish People’s Party, earned Denmark the label of the Arizona of Europe, due to immigration policies and xenophobia. Here in Denmark, most people are happy that time’s over. A left-wing coalition
For the past 14 years, I’ve been studying the nocturnal goings-on in a dilapidated loft building at 6th Avenue and 28th Street, Manhattan’s wholesale flower district from 1954 to 1965. Ten years before that, I began listening to wee-hour sports talk radio from New York’s
* A study of Twitter moods finds everyone has nearly the same ups and downs throughout the day. * How do I make my document look like it was written by an Cthulhu worshipping madman? * Only the truly bookish could penetrate the "atmosphere of funlessness" once found in small bookstores.
* Excellent, lucid summary of current events in the Middle East. * Al Qaeda asks Ahmadinejad and other conspiracy theorists to stop giving the U.S. credit for 9/11. * Paper says the economic crisis is no longer making Americans unhappy, so maybe we're heading for a cliff. * More Pinker
I resolved to take action. I’d been doing this crush series for nearly two months, and even I had grown weary of my precious little poet’s inability to do anything but yammer on about boys like I was sketching the clouds. “I am playing around with continuing this
Perhaps bigamists have it the worst: “You must refrain from changing your relationship status to “It’s Complicated,” regardless of how true it may seem. To monogamists, a status change signals marital instability. This will only attract inquisitive wall posts and potential temptations from ex-paramours and those meddlesome divorcees
* A month after the White House promised a crackdown, 2,900 illegal immigrants with criminal records arrested. * Reebok to pay $25 million in arrears over toning shoe health claims, but stands behind its technology. * Michael Moore at the Wall St. protests. * Last year only 60 children were adopted in the
* Western governments shy about defending human rights; liberty declined for the fifth year in a row. * Long-term cost of detainee abuse: Now torturers can say, "But you torture too." * Rick Perry rumbled for trashing North Carolina BBQ. * Jenny Diski not shy in analyzing published "happiness project.
* For every step forward Bulgaria makes to shed its Communist past, the old guard is right there, refusing to let go. * Conservatives latch onto Gibson Guitar illegal wood raid as an example of big government hurting U.S. businesses. * Nicholas Feltron, designer and analyzer of self-collected data, credited with
Running into your father on the internet can be a startling event when it’s unexpected. Particularly when your father is dead.
