Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking:
They have amused us, angered us and sometimes - just occasionally - they have actually made us buy something.
But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels.
And, this being [...]
Bookworm on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Europe
Ireland stymied the EU’s latest effort to turn all of Western Europe into a lock-step bureaucracy, the ultimate Nanny state. That’s not the news. You already know that. What I wanted to blog about for a sec was the very first sentence in the AP news story (emphasis mine):
Substantial election returns showed [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, France, Health, Islam, John McCain, Medicine, Muslim violence
Britain’s Telegraph has three interesting articles, and the London Times one:
Read about the vast difference between Britain’s and France’s socialized medicine. I’d certainly like to know what accounts for the difference before I start making changes to the American system. Color me skeptical, but I bet Obama, who shows himself to be remarkably [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe
In America, we think of historical Europe as a place were voiceless mastered were ruled by high-handed aristocrats. We assume that those days are over, wiped away by war, revolution, and the simple passage of time. The European Union, however, periodically provides timely reminders that Europe is still ruled by high-handed authoritarian figures [...]
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