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Germany after WWII, a personal perspective

January 9, 2009

Yankee in a New World recently asked on her blog if Germans and Americans have historical guilt in common.  I started to answer that no, I don’t think we really do, then realized I had so much to say that I needed to write it in a post. I think, out of countries that have [...]

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A 5-4-3-2-1 Music Meme

June 20, 2007

I was recently tagged for this meme by two expat bloggers in Thailand, Ange from Thai me Kangaroo down sport… and Vanalli from The Lost Boy. It was a really difficult meme for me to do, and took quite a bit of thought, but here are my answers based on what I am feeling right [...]

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exhaustion, sports, exhaustion

February 5, 2007

Just to preface this post, I am exhausted. Completely, totally, falling asleep standing up exhausted. But I briefly crawled out of bed to update you all on my weekend (actually, it was to see when the next episode of “Flavor of Love” is showing on MTV Germany, but shhh, that is my guilty secret pleasure). [...]

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You dropped a bomb on me, baby!

October 12, 2006

Rainer reports that yesterday, as he was leaving work, he noticed that Clayallee was closed off, the police were out in full riot gear, and there were 10-12 ambulances with flashing lights waiting. Now, since Rainer’s work is located about three blocks from the U.S. Consulate on Clayallee, he was certain that there had been [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Head-liners

July 14, 2006

Ya know what I don’t get, why is this whole Zidane thing still in the news? And why do so many people have their panties in a bunch over this? I mean, it’s not like there’s much going on in the world, right? Just train bombings in Mumbai, Israel attacking Lebanon, Bush flirting with Angela [...]

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Very Random Thoughts

July 10, 2006

I’ll post about the Final and stuff tomorrow, my thoughts are too random to put something constructive together today, so I’ll just give you some of the random tidbits floating around up there. Okay, one Final tidbit: Zidane is off my Sexy List. What the heck was he thinking? He’s a veteran, it’s his last [...]

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