The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

Some of you may recall me mentioning a super friendly kitty in an earlier post. Whenever I’m out walking and he’s nearby he always comes over and demands to be petted. Well today the Swede and I had just gotten home from running some errands in town. We were just about to open the outer [...]

1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
3. [...]

My good friend Marnie aka High Priestess Kang in Raleigh, NC recently tagged me to list and expound upon my recommendations for eateries in the small college town of Uddevalla, Sweden.
I’ve been tagged along with the following individuals:

Madame Firesnake, Umeå Sverige
Emory, Johnston County, NC
Mr Shark, Decatur, IL
A Bowl of Stupid, Miami, Florida and/or any body [...]

One of my biggest pet peeves is with the US government’s continued promotion of the so called abstinence only education program for young people. There have been numerous studies conducted in recent months by the ACLU and other prominent organizations that have shown that abstinence only education is not working.
Not only are young people who [...]

At the end of this month I’ll be taking a trip down to Migrationsverket in order to apply for a residence visa. I’m hoping to be approved for permanent residence since I’ve been living and working in Sweden (on a temporary work permit) since 2005, but the most they’ll likely give me is a two-year [...]

Parents Outraged After Elementary School Teachers Stage Fake Gunman Attack
Sunday , May 13, 2007
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —
Staff members of a Murfreesboro elementary school staged a fake gunman attack during a school trip, telling them it was not a drill as children cried and hid under tables.Parents of the sixth-grade students at Scales Elementary were outraged after [...]

Last night was the big final event for the Eurovision Song Contest, an event which is virtually unheard of in the US but which in Europe is like the Superbowl and the Academy Awards combined. The city of Helsinki, Finland had the honor of holding the final event this year because last year’s shock winners [...]

Forgive me for not being in a very bloggy mood as of late. It’s crunch time at work again. Right now it’s national test taking time, which means the whole schedule is topsy turvy. I ask myself why I’m even sitting here typing this when there is a stack of half-graded writing tests sitting on [...]

I’ve been hearing about storms and tornadoes happening all over the world this spring, and Sweden’s no exception. The last week or so we’ve had continuous rain and wind. I was standing at the bus stop and looked back toward the school when I noticed the sky was black. It was an awesome sight so [...]

What do you MEAN I’m not going to die?

Mon May 7, 12:23 PM ET
A British man who went on a wild spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now healthy — but broke.
John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with [...]