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Architectural rant for Friday, re this, via the Monitor.As we all know, the main train station is supposed to undergo a modernization to bring it more in line with western European stations - places where people actually want to go rather than avoid. But did you know that the Italian company chosen for the job (what is it with the Czechs choosing Italians for flagship projects?) has to by law get

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Jon Stewart on yesterday's Daily Show Global Edition: "Yesterday the US lost 3-0 to Czechoslovakia." There must have been numerous mentions of the game on US media. There must have been numerous mentions of the fact that the US lost to the Czech Republic. I know for a fact that there was much gnashing of teeth and renting of garments over the US performance. I will go so far as to say that I

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Now I've seen everything. Just who were the guys in the American uniforms playing against Italy tonight and where the hell were they against the Czechs? For that matter, who were the dudes in the Czech uniforms today playing Ghana and just why didn't they use the ones that beat the US on Monday? Anyhow, bravo to the nine-a-side team the Americans did field tonight. As with Portugal four years ago

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Well, I've discovered there are some Ghanaians living on my street. There were some hearty roars after the two goals Ghana slotted past Petr Cech in the game just now finished. Either that or some Italians cheering for Ghana in the hope that it leaves them free and clear to win the group and avoid Brazil in the next round.Good for Ghana, although I wouldn't be too proud of winning only 2 nil

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Link to Slate's analysis of the non-phenomenon of soccer in the US.Well, how about that: there's some overlap with the article I linked to in the previous post. Previous article first reason why soccer isn't popular in the US: "1. We Didn’t Invent It". Slate's first reason: "First, as a nation of loony but determined inventors, we prefer things we thought of ourselves." Previous article reason

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Ten Reasons Why America Isn’t Wild About Soccer6. So many games end in a tieThis is clearly un-American. America likes victory, even when its only an imaginary one.Via Clive Davis.

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Acquire a bookstore: The Globe is for sale for 2 million Kc, about $84,000. Seems cheap to me. But apparently the cost of running the place has run it into the ground and it may close.

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The Skoda Roomster. I haven't seen it around, and would remember if I had. What an odd looking car.

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Nice drop:The US has emerged victorious in a blind tasting by experts in London and California pitting US and French wine against each other.

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Europe's most repellant foodCzech Republic: A typical Czech plateful consists of great slabs of greyish flesh slathered with fatty, tasteless gravy, mopped up with dumplings that taste like kitchen roll dipped in egg.Yah. The good news is that it's worse in Iceland. And that if you've got the time and are so inclined you just shop around and cook for yourself. And if you have the dough you eat

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I added Edward Lucas, Economist correspondent for central and eastern Europe, to my small blogroll. I am really enjoying his stuff. He wrote the survey of Poland that was published in a recent issue and his comments section got a bit lively when a few Poles with thin skins and diarrhea of the mouth (or keyboard?) went on the attack. In particular see the impassioned and breathtakingly moronic

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Czech politicians exchange blowsSurely that's 'views'...?

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I see an ad at Prague.tv for Smart Wings and they suggest they have air tickets starting at 7 Euros. If you go to their website you are greeted with,Smart Wings - the first czech low cost airline service opens up the New Europe for you! Based at the Prague airport.So, would you fly with an airline whose mistakes start on the homepage and presumably go on down the line from there?

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Hear, hear:"Foodies" will go anywhere their resources will allow in order to get a good meal. It doesn't matter if the meal comes from a hot dog vendor selling sausages out of a cart on a corner or if it comes from a five star restaurant. A good meal is a good meal, no matter whence it came.Hear, hear. In other words, being into food doesn't equal snobb-o. It's true - you can have a soul-lifting

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Kids in France and Germany are getting a new history textbook. On the contrast between the EU and the US:"Through its willingness to co-operate with the Third World, its attachment to multilateralism, its dialogue with other regions, the EU appears as a model on the international scene," it says.Cooperating with the Third World on EU agricultural subsidies, they mean?By contrast, modern American

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Blameworthy subject sought for Wayne Rooney's broken footI quite like this one:First is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which is tending towards the obvious but it did precipitate the first world war, ending in the Treaty of Versailles, which led to the rise of Hitler, which caused the second world war. This resulted in the devastation of much of Europe's infrastructure, which led

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Dangerous woman subdued by valiant copKateřina Jacques is a Green Party candidate for Parliament and head of human rights section in the government's cabinet office. Yesterday she attended an anti-neo-nazi demo in Prague apparently near where a neo-nazi rally was happening. Some cops told her and a few others to beat it, sort of a "move along, tootsie, nothing to see here."Here's what happened

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Saw this linked at AIB:"Prague was the place in the early 1990s," said Margaret Malewski, author of the 2005 guide "GenXpat: The Young Professional's Guide to Making a Successful Life Abroad." "B.A. is the hot spot now."I feel so 15 years ago. And too old to learn Spanish. Life has passed by and gone to Argentina.There's this: In Prague, the typical expat, circa 1991, might have been a 23-

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Last night I saw this billboard in Brno. ("Education for a fee? We have another solution.") Aren't they good looking young people? Smart, alert, ambitious, serious and rather fashionable. And also communist. Those two people are in their 20s, barely old enough to remember a time before 1989, and they have lent their faces to an ad campaign for the return to power of the communist party. To these

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I received the following invitation today:"Dear Reader,I'd like to send you a FREE copy of a unique and invaluable report.It's called How to Retire to Paradise For $19 a Day. And it tells you about the best places in the world for retirement living.In one of the places detailed in this report, gentle sea breezes keep the climate nearly perfect, with mild temperatures year-round.You'll find cliffs

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If your name is Scott, today you are probably thinking about mysteries like why people believe in their particular gods. As examples, here is one Scott and here is another.There seems to be a high correlation between being named Scott and understanding just how diabolically easy it is to lend your average believer enough rope to tie themselves up in knots as they try to prove the obviousness of

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What the new democracies of central Europe have yet to learn from the example of Iraqi Kurds: How to treat visitors! We ordered two kebabs. The waiter brought eight, along with enough vegetables and hummus to feed half of Dohok. He only charged us for two. We could only eat three.From Michael Totten's ongoing tale of his adventures in Kurdistan. When is Cedok going to start offering tickets?

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Founder of Greenpeace on why need nuclear power. (You have to register - it's the WaPo).Popular myths dispelled, argument clearly stated. Should you have tired of hunting up Easter eggs or weaving your willow switch in preparation for tomorrow's ritual, read the article. He is right. Czech tv decided to broadcast The Passion of the Christ on Friday. I came across it by accident and saw the last

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I wish I had been there:"On a Saturday last May, right after the general election, 20 or so similarly minded people met in a pub in London. We had no specific agenda, merely a desire to talk about where things were politically. Those present were all of the left: some bloggers or running other websites, their readers, a few with labour movement connections, one or two students. Many of us were

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Red Kenny comments for free about multiculti London: "...London's unique multicultural openness says: 'Your business is very welcome, and we assume you will bring your culture with you - adding to our city's creativity.' I know, for example, that this approach was decisive in London beating Paris to the Olympics."Wrong again, Sunshine. As the BBC reported in December,"A senior Olympic figure has

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Oh for God's sake. "Staff were reportedly weeping behind the cameras as Couric announced that 'after listening to my heart and my gut . . . I’ve decided I’ll be leaving at the end of May.'"I can't stand Katie Pollyanna Couric and luckily for me I can't watch her here in Europe even by accident. So she's replacing Dan Rather. So what? The old television news organizations are way out of step. They

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Recently Scott asked, what's the matter with decaf coffee? I don't have anything against it. If it's decent quality. The store bought kind in these parts isn't any good though. I was reminded of this when I came across a post about the history of coffee. Why did instant coffee become so ubiquitous in the US? Apparently the army is to blame, which had been sluicing forms of instant-like coffee

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It's about 20C outside my apartment right now; a little earlier I was walking the dog and everyone around was wearing winter coats as if the temperature was a trick. I was the only one I could see without a coat. In the spring around here I have always noticed that people ease into lighter clothes slowly, reluctant to shed the moldy old winter layer. In the fall it's the opposite for some. And

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Something incongruous here?Russia 'gave Iraq intelligence'"Russia provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on US military moves in the opening days of the US-led invasion in 2003, a Pentagon report has said."Germany gave U.S. Saddam's war plan"A German official passed a copy of Saddam Hussein's plan to defend Baghdad to U.S. commanders a month before the invasion of Iraq, according to a

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22-year-old CEO Raises $10M"The 22-year-old CEO and founder of Theranos said Monday she has raised in excess of $10 million in venture funding for her adverse drug monitoring device....It’s critical we be able to scale in volume,” Ms. Holmes said as the company is releasing product in bulk for use in oncology. “We’re also focused on other critical care application, where you have basically toxic

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Bureacurats talk senseObserved in an English-language bureaucratic text laying out the requirements for dispersal of funds to an NGO:"The Ministry may tie release of the funds to the auditor's execution."

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Lookalikes: Mohamed Elbaradei and Mr. Potato Head.

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Is this ad for real, asks b.

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"I get chatting to a Dutchman who until recently guarded Milosevic in prison. He says he was good company, polite and well behaved. But he says the climax to his career as prison guard would have been to lock the door on Bush and Blair.He says they have killed more people than Milosevic ever did. And he's deadly serious."A Dutch prison guard, talking with the BBC's Mark Mardell, about the "real

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If you saw the movie, Goodbye, Lenin! you may remember the important role played by Spreewald Gherkins. These pickles are now enjoying EU protection against imitation - the same kind of rule that says you can't call your bubbly "champagne" unless it's made in Champagne. Etc. I would like to taste these champagne pickles. Would anyone know a place in Prague where they could be purchased, or ...

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Gawker covers a party in honor of Andrew Sullivan hosted by Time Editor Jim Kelly.Scroll down to check out what kind of beer the Time editor has floating in his bathtub!

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Some woman in the UK got herself fined for applying makeup while driving along a highway through a accident black-spot. Police camera, photo, court appearance followed. She has become famous, in a way most wouldn't choose for their 15 minutes. How embarrassing.Musing here from the Guardian on the more high-tech distractions we face: "As if the present lot of distractions weren't enough, new

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I have a nice coffee table book called "Ohio - A Bicentennial Portrait" sitting around here. It was a gift from a past visitor. I was flipping through it tonight and came across a picture of the Longaberger Company headquarters building. It's not the average company HQ which is why it's in a coffee table book. I just looked it up on the web to confirm that I'm not hallucinating. Weird.

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I've seen several links already to this video clip (#1050) by the fiery Arab-American psychologist duking it out with a couple of very hapless fellows on Al-Jazeera. So I decided to check it out: whoa, Nellie! Hell hath no fury. Worth watching, worth every minute. Also worth reading over some of the summaries of other clips linked to on this Memritv page.#1049 - Film Seminar on Iranian TV: Tom

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MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism. Via Norm.What's the new totalitarianism? Hint: the signers are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Chahla Chafiq, Caroline Fourest, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Irshad Manji, Mehdi Mozaffari, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Sfeir, Philippe Val, Ibn Warraq.Another well known name, Arundhati Roy, has a piece today in which she interestingly writes of

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World Bank Group President To Mark Czech Republic Graduation In PragueI was just watching a bit of Wolfowitz's address live on tv. Snooze-inducing on one level, but interesting nonetheless that this country has been declared officially to be no longer "an aid recipient, but an important development partner," as he said.

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"Czech Post to issue stamps celebrating Neumannova's gold medal"I'll take a whole sheet.

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I read a few pieces about something called the Millenial Generation. These are boys and girls born since 1978, and whose pesonalities have been influenced by a high-dosage program of self-esteem enhancement since birth. The parents are inseparable part of the phenomenon (warning - reader discretion advised):"Last year, when a 24-year-old salesman at a car dealership didn't get his yearly bonus

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My new hero is Katka Neumannova. From the official Turin website:"But perhaps the most heart-warming achievement was that of Czech Katerina Neumannova.In five previous visits to the Olympics, including one as a mountain biker in Atlanta in 1996, the perennial runner-up had won four silver medals and a bronze but had never taken gold.At the age of 33, she won the very last race of her Olympic

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She did it:Katerina Neumannova opened a can of whoopass in the last race of her last Olympics. Gold medal in the 30 km! It's an inspiring finish to watch - better than Sea Biscuit! Catch the replays on the news today. It will be shown about 57 times.

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Attention:"Filo Pastry: Very thin sheets of pastry east European and Middle Eastern dishes."Has anyone ever seen this stuff in Prague? For sale, I mean?

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Still hunting witches in Massachussetts: So long then, Larry Summers. All that flak he took for asking direct questions until now was for me just another horror show among many. But I distinctly remember thinking that the hysteria against him, even though we are talking about US academic luvvies here, was pretty shrill. I mean, let the heckling fit the case. Some lively and spirited discussion,

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Interesting: "As the obvious significance of Paris has diminished, and as price and fashion have driven what bohemians remain to Prague and Budapest (those who don't just go to Hoboken and Williamsburg), Paris for Americans is no longer an exclamation point at the end of the world but a question mark at the fringe of our empire."

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Henry helps Arsenal to reign in SpainNice headline.

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Title of a frontpage New York Times story: "Tough G.I.'s Go to War Armed With Afghan ABC's".I wonder if the Time's has a specific policy regarding plural's of abbreviation's and acronym's? More like their headline writers come from the supermarket sign business: "Tomatoe's .99/lb."

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It's the No Diving campaign sponsored by the Times. Just came across this and my first reaction is, "good idea and good luck because you'll need it." Too little, too late in my opinion. This is a deep, endemic problem. Might as well rename this summer's World Cup to the "World Cup of on-Pitch Diving" in the name of accuracy. The real wonder is that players risk all those dives in the first place

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Dick Cheney, fearless hunter: "We saw this outlook taken to the extreme last December in the unfortunate example of Vice President Dick Cheney, when he and some Texas friends made for the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, Pennsylvania. No need for tramping fields and hedgerows at Rolling Rock; like hundreds of other "gentlemen's shooting clubs" in America, it's designed for the prosperous

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Attempts by western media to be sensitive to others' feelings not unprecedented:"If memory serves, it was NBC who back in the '70s used to have every sitcom joke about homosexuality vetted by a gay dentist in New Jersey. Apprised of this at a conference on censorship, the producer of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" remarked, "You mean there really is a tooth fairy?'"

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I did a little Amazon browsing over the weekend. Among other things, I am searching for an affordable casual watch and can't find something simple in shops here that I like. Haven't worn one for years, ever since a Lorus stripped-down very basic model to which I was particularly attached finally gave up the ghost. It must be more years than I thought since I bought that last one. This today is

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James Kunstler: "Meanwhile, the official Democratic Party response to Mr. Bush's fucking nonsense was the stupendous fatuousness of newly-elected Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's rebuttal, a saccharine gruel of platitudes and panderings that made me want to shoot members of my own party on sight."

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Washington bureau chief of Die Zeit on why his paper was right to reprint the cartoons. A nice contrast to those hand-wringers who worry about "stirring up a hornet's nest". There is also a good recounting of how the whole flap came to be.

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See the comments in the previous post for arguments defending the Archbishop. (I'm not persuaded.) In the meantime, hats off to the Czech ambassador to Islamabad Alexandr Langer, who sets a more admirable example. The Pakistani foreign minister called in nine European ambassadors, including the Czech, for a scolding because newspapers in their own countries had reproduced one or more of the

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Prague's chief Catholic Cardinal Miloslav Vlk not covering himself in glory:"'The freedom of man is not unlimited. It has its limitations whenever it affects the freedom of another person - and this is what journalists often do not realise,' Vlk said", reacting to the cartoon riots by criticizing those who simply exercised free speech. I'm not sure how he imagines cartoon-publishing to affect the

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Speaking further of European droid carriers, here are two Trabant jokes I heard:1. An American hears about one of the most popular cars in eastern Europe and decides to order a Trabant. A few weeks later, it arrives from Europe. Later at his local bar, he tells his friends, "it's an amazing company. They've sent me in advance a perfect plastic model of how the car will look."2. A rich American is

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Link from AS: "Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images or any other religious belief," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.So where are the State Department condemnations of vile anti-Semitic cartoons published by government-run papers in the Middle East?I have a feeling that 99% of people who become aware of this stupid

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Nice review by Garisson Keillor of the silly ass new book from Bernard-Henri Levy about the US of A. Favorite bit at the last: "Thanks, pal. I don't imagine France collapsing anytime soon either. Thanks for coming. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. For your next book, tell us about those riots in France, the cars burning in the suburbs of Paris. What was that all about? Were fat people

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If you type www.skoda.com, this apparently is not the homepage of the celebrated manufacturer of "European droid carriers".

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So it seems the vast majority of Palestinian folk quite like the idea of being governed by a party that, for once, states its thoughts in plain, easy-to-understand language:"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."From the oft-quoted Hamas Charter. It's less a poiltical

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George's planned reception in Westminster: "Over in the Commons, they can't wait. The Labour MP Steve Pound promised: 'He'll have a saucer of milk waiting for him. And a litter tray.'"

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Among excuses offered for not doing more for the homeless during this freezing spell:"City Hall is also doing everything it can to help the homeless but its help is limited: it isn't easy to acquire buildings in neighbourhoods without sparking protests from local residents. So, some people have to find other ways of keeping warm. They often choose unconventional places like night trams and buses,

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Much warmer today...only -8 currently outside here in beautiful Bubenec. For women inspired by this heat wave to start thinking about new swimwear, here are a few suggestions from the fundo Christian emporium, Wholesomewear.com. (v AS)

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Capitol Hill's restaurants are empty! According to Slate: "In other Abramoff fallout, the LAT gathers several examples of how lawmakers and their staff in Washington are more reluctant to be seen talking to, or accepting any gifts from, lobbyists. Restaurants around Capitol Hill are empty as politicians and their staff are even refusing lunch invitations."My old stomping ground. My group of

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Evening Standard: George sinks to new low.

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Gadzooks - look at this: "EXTREME right wing groups from eastern Europe are planning to subject England’s black football stars to racist abuse during the World Cup tournament in Germany.The gangs, from Serbia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, have held meetings at which they agreed to put aside traditional rivalries for the duration of the tournament."Smite them, verily. Shaven headed, no-neck

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I admit it - I am loving this spectacle: "...George Galloway called Denis Rodman 'bro'. He has not, as far as I can see or hear, called anybody else in the house 'bro'. I wouldn't imagine 'bro' is part of his everyday repertoire. Nice of him to use special black people's vocab. How long until he compliments Rodman on his marvellous sense of rhythm?"

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"Today The Sun launches a petition demanding maverick Galloway, 51, be suspended from the House of Commons for betraying the public’s trust and bringing his profession into disrepute.The Respect Party MP sparked revulsion when he was seen purring and licking imaginary milk from the hands of 57-year-old Rula Lenska."

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BBC: Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri told his followers it was their "religious duty to kill" non-Muslims, jurors heard as his trial began at the Old Bailey.The BBC World report I saw a few minutes ago showed a bunch of his chanting groupies outside court carrying signs that said, "Democracy is hyprocrisy!" and (my favorite), "Freedom go to hell!".Update - one further thought. No doubt the

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Queen Latifah visits the Grand Hotel Poop in Karlovy Vary (via P Monitor). The side splitting preview available here. This reminded me that when last observed on Jay Leno's stage, he invited the Queen to speak some Czech. She came up with "Dickweed" for dekuji and "Yak she mash?" for jak se mas.

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I was in Germany some years back for New Year's Eve. Sat in the sitting room of the people we were visiting, I witnessed The Mystery of Dinner for One. It's a strange spectacle watching the Germans in the room slapping their thighs and barking with laughter at this sort of embarrassing and not very funny little film.

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2005 in review from NEWS OF THE WEIRD: "At a new theme park in El Alberto, Mexico (near Mexico City), wannabe migrants to the United States can test their survival skills at an obstacle course that replicates the rigors migrants must endure while sneaking across the border. Admission price: about $13.50. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 20"

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This guy the Big Pharaoh's all right:"I had a few minutes to spare during my working day today. I thought it would be a good idea to read Noam Chomsky's interview with Egyptian blogger Karim Elsahy who was interviewing the professor on behalf of Egypt Today magazine. I started reading and reached the sentence where Chomsky said:'I mean the level of religious fundamentalism in the United States is

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The Prague Post Online: "Before the Nov. 16 home leg of the crucial playoff encounter with Norway - the game that clinched a Czech World Cup berth - CMFS received a quarter of a million ticket requests, and the available 20,000 tickets to Prague's Toyota Arena sold out in just one minute on the Internet." Shazzam. I did not know that. The odds of getting a ticket for the finals legally at this

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Sploid: TSA GALS CAUGHT SWIPING WALLET: "Two federal airport screeners at New York's JFK airport were arrested after they helped themselves to a traveler's wallet.The gals then went on a shopping spree with his credit cards ... while still wearing their TSA uniforms."

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Prague arrest of "bin Laden's man in Sweden": "Oussamma Kassir, a 39-year-old Lebanese man who emigrated to Sweden as a teenager in 1984. He's now wanted by the FBI for terrorist offences. The US authorities say he's suspected of trying to set up an al-Qaeda terrorist camp in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2002." Near a fly-blown town called Bly, to be exact. This is ranch-land, population: limited

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Let's continue talking about Whos. Doctor Who takes anti-war stance. The Christmas episode of Doctor Who will feature some political message product placement, as it were. "In one scene she [the prime minister] says of the US president: 'He is not my boss and he is certainly not turning this into a war.'" Then in a later scene she goes wobbly and "echoes former Prime Minister Margaret

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CNN.com - 15 years of the World Wide Web. The highlights of this strange new medium according to CNN's program "Spark" and presenter Kristie Lu Stout. Since it's Christmas time, let me say I can never hear that name without thinking of Cindy Lou Who.

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Demon seeding: "They [the sissy seeded teams] will all be hoping to avoid some of the dangerous non-seeded powerhouses including the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, ranked second and third in the world, who pose the biggest threat to the top teams." Reason behind seeding: sale of television rights. If one of the Big 8 gets knocked out in early rounds everybody in the home market switches

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The Great Dvorak Controversy. That well-packaged Click Online presenter, Stephen Cole, reported on an argument today. Seems the program received sacksful of letters, or a few anyway, passionately arguing over the pronounciation of the name, "Dvorak". Mr. Dvorak was the fellow who invented the logical keyboard layout. Some letter writers argued that the name has always been pronounced as written

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London is canning the double decker bus, and replacing it with the serpentine bend-in-the-middle job that we all know from various routes around here.

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It's always the telling detail that counts. On Nobel Genius Harold Pinter (by Johann Hari): "I once tried to discuss his defence of Milosevic with him and he began to scream – literally scream – at me."This crowd and its acolytes have that sort of shrill side. It reminds me of the tone of the fellow who responded to a comment of mine about Noam Chomsky on some thread or other by suggesting, "

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Halcyon days at the old alma mater: LSE apologises for student rampage.

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I just saw the apparently new Budvar Bob and Dave ad on Galaxie Sport. It's here. Isn't the guy on the left (I don't know if that's Bob or Dave) one of the guys from the warehouse in The Office?

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Trial of the century becomes a trial of patience, with Saddam in charge: "Saddam wore a slight smirk on his face, as if savouring a victory. 'Apologise to Mr Clark for me,' he told his lawyer in an aside. 'These are the countries of the Third World. What can we do? It's painful for the image of Iraq.'" At least the defendant and his new foreign friend deserve each other.

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China Resolves a Water Crisis, Then Pivots to an Earthquake - New York Times How do figure "resolved"? I think the people of Khabarovsk in Siberia will beg to differ. They get the full dose of the spill over the next few days (see here). Not only will it shut down their drinking water, but the whole city is heated by those scary gigantic steam heat plants that charge their systems from the river

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Weapon in war on terror: horror movies. Ah, the movies. Mirrors unto our souls.

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Pet Products: "At Fideaux, a pet supply boutique in Healdsburg, Calif., just a few of the offerings include leather collars imported from Switzerland for $60 to $100 each; 'Cab-bone-net' and 'Char-dog-nay' wine-flavored treats for $9.95 a bag; and brightly striped beds for summertime, and red and green beds for the holidays that cost $60 to $150." The pet biz. I only noticed this because I have

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The PTV people have started a Czech Football Weblog.

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"Wounded Chirac losing grip of riot-hit France"Week three of country-wide rioting. Yesterday watching BBC World's program Dateline: London where reporters stroke chins and opine on the week's news I remembered the French lady journalist a couple of months ago who said on the show during the aftermath of the few days of riots in New Orleans that the disturbances were a clear demonstration of the '

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There's an IBM speech translation technology called MASTOR which is quite impressive. Installed on a Pocket PC with a SIM card, one person speaking Mandarin can have a conversation with another speaking English.I thought of two things when I read about this. One, they should integrate it into Skype. Imagine the mathematical possibilities, Max. Two, that Far Side cartoon where the scientist

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This thread at A Fistful of Euros starts out with Scott MacMillan saying he will vomit if he hears multiculturalism blamed one more time for the French unrest. I weigh in with the thought that the phenomenon of assimilation is the better place to be looking: why does it happen (relatively well) in the US and not in Europe? Many Europeans like to think they are the tolerant, open societies of

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Private Eye: "Lines Written To Commemorate The Award Of The Nobel Prize For Literature 2005 To Myself by Harold Pinter O.M.So. They have given meThe Nobel PrizeFor Literature.That?ll show thatFucking bastard BushAnd his warmongeringFriend Blair.Wankers.© H. Pinter, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006"

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From Mickey?Kaus: "**--Kristof may have hit on the marketing breakthrough that will save TimesSelect. Call it TruthSelect. Here's the plan: Have the op-ed columns in the print edition contain flagrant inaccuracies. Figure out what the factual version of events is, but print the corrected, accurate version only on the restricted, premium portion of the Web site, where people have to pay $49.95 to

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Eyesore of the Month from James Kunstler. "This is what the fear of lawyers has done to our society."

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Literally one of the best uses of blogging I have seen.

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