More on Football and the European economy – Slate’s Daniel Gross explains why Europe’s favorite sport is more American than baseball. In a nutshell, it’s because “American sports are virtually all socialistic while the European soccer leagues more closely resemble the entrepreneurial capitalism we Americans fetishize.” (via papascott.de)
Monthly Archives: July 2004
Politics?
First this
then this
then this
quite apart from the possibility that a moose will fall on your car, or that an elk will steal your bicycle.
Will Europe ever get back to politics? Or away from its televisions? Or its large ruminants?
Norwegian Humor
Flying moose lands on car’s roof
A leisurely Sunday drive came to an abrupt halt for a couple in southern Norway over the weekend, when a fully grown moose suddenly landed on the roof of their car.
No really, it’s in the newspaper.