From the monthly archives:

May 2006

In the news: stabbings, soccer and monsters

May 27, 2006

Yesterday in Berlin, at the opening of Lehrter Hauptbahnhof, now the biggest train station in Europe, a 16 year old boy ran through the crowd stabbing 28 people. It’s now known that one of the first people he stabbed was HIV+. There is no word yet on why he did it. Germany is preparing to [...]

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

May 17, 2006

I finally finished this book and boy, I definitely won’t be reading Trail of Tears. I’m more depressed now than in 2003 when the Iraq war started up and I had to avoid all sources of news for a week. It got a little better towards the end when there were a small minority of [...]

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Immigration and Terrorism

May 13, 2006

A rerun of the previous day’s Larry King Live is shown every morning here on CNN International at 11am. It’s now 1pm and I’m still angry and dismayed by last night’s show [click here for transcript]. Last night’s show involved two liberal talk show hosts debating two conservative talk show hosts about today’s hot topics. [...]

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Early morning fun

May 12, 2006

Two old biker guys rang my bell this morning to tell me they’d be working on the house. I wonder if these guys worked for the complex or if they were just doing something for one of the residents here in the building? Anyway, they put a ladder up in my yard and were installing [...]

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Dead bunny

May 9, 2006

This afternoon, I discovered a dead bunny rabbit in the grass opposite our apartment. Not a wild rabbit, but clearly a young pet bunny. Poor guy. I hope it wasn’t some idiot who decided they didn’t want the bunny anymore and just set it loose. People should know that pet bunnies are not at all [...]

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The Trouble with East Germans

May 6, 2006

Rainer’s bunny allergies finally became too bad and we took Franklin and Grumpy to the animal shelter today. Germany doesn’t euthanize and the lady there said that several people had been by recently asking about rabbits and Grumpy and Franklin are the only ones they have now. Hopefully they won’t split them up–I forgot to [...]

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What’s in a name?

May 3, 2006

Yesterday, the news here was reporting (apart from the immigration protests) that there is a backlash in the US against SUVs. Is there really? I just got back a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t notice anything. They played some dippy (and yet so true) country song about SUV drivers being 90 pound soccer [...]

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