… and Clinton a PC? This question is asked in a great New York Times article. Barack is more stylish, youthful and cool, while Hillary is more traditional, hectic and ‘in your face’, the article argues and backs it up with an analysis of both contenders’ websites.
Unfortunately, this also means that Barack remains a ‘niche product’ [...]

so you have presidential elections in about a year’s time. That’s good, because it means that whatever happens, Bush will be gone. We don’t know yet if what comes after will be better, but it might be more fun. What, with a guy that doesn’t believe in evolution at the head of the world’s biggest [...]

I’ll refrain from making snide comments about “typically American ignorance” here, because my own knowledge of Geography is more than appalling (I actually believed for a while that Saas-Fee was in Hungary, based on the sound of the name… erm…). Still, I couldn’t resist - this is quite amusing!

Via La fábrica de las cosas pequeñas.

A few days ago, El País published the content of a meeting between Bush and Aznar in February 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq. This - so far secret - content that El País got their hands on reveals some pearls of wisdom especially from George Bush that perfectly illustrate his way of thinking [...]

American paranoia about terrorism is reaching a new level. Two days ago, the EU “agreed” to supply details of transatlantic flight passengers. Here are a few things the US customs authorities will know about us in the future:

Ethnic origin
E-mail address
Seat number/location aboard the plane
History of missing flights
Political tendencies
Sexual preferences

Very comforting. I would feel so much [...]

Hugo Chávez is making friends in the world. We already know plenty about his internal aberrations, but now he’s also going astray abroad. At least in the eyes of the United States.
This week, Hugo is visiting his friend Vladimir in Russia. According to the BBC, Chávez and Putin will discuss the purchase of up to [...]

Yes, they are. At least according to the spokesperson for children’s rights, Ewa Sowinska. According to the BBC, Sowinska is having the Teletubbies investigated to see if they might be promoting a homosexual lifestyle.
The chief suspect is Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby. Ewa Sowinska saw him carrying a woman’s handbag on TV and couldn’t first [...]

Today, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his long expected ’state of the union’-speech - his last one, as he reiterated, since he is due to step down in 2008. The speech was eagerly awaited by observers, especially across the Atlantic, after talks between Secretary of State Robert Gates and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov on [...]