2012 Ryder Cup

@ independent.co.uk

[The] European team stunned the world of golf and much of the rest of sport with the greatest comeback on foreign soil in the 85-year history of the Ryder Cup and there, amid all the improbable glory and sustained and brilliant nerve which would have delighted the man to whom it was dedicated, the great Seve Ballesteros.

2010 Ryder Cup

rydercup.com

Nothing on earth makes you feel more European!

Tags: sport Europe USA

Sarah Palin - The shadow

@ philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com

"She stands for:
–Small town values — a denial of America’s global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.

–Ignorance of world affairs — a repudiation of the need to repair America’s image abroad.

–Family values — a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don’t need to be heeded.

–Rigid stands on guns and abortion — a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.

–Patriotism — the usual fallback in a failed war.

–”Reform” — an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn’t fit your ideology."

and there's a nice video of Matt Damon slagging her off too.

Tags: USA politics video

American Law

Teen arrested, charged with felony for saving girlfriend's life with his athsma inhaler

Tags: law USA

Iraq stuff

We sold him what!?
http://www.ericblumrich.com/thanks.html

This flash animation comes up with some not very well known facts about the history of America and Iraq.

Part of ericblumrich.com which has plenty of other flash animations, a great links page and more.

Jogging in the twilight zone
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE27Ak04.html

Haider Hamoudi's account of a jog, around the (American controlled) Green Zone of Baghdad, is a well written article that gives an idea of what life is like in Baghdad (I imagine).

Haider Hamoudi is an Iraqi-American lawyer now working on a US government-funded legal-education project in Iraq.

Click-through graphics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/interactives/0,12793,876854,00.html

The Guardian has a Click-through graphics on Iraq including such things as

Saddam Hussein's capture

Google
www.google.com

Type in "miserable failure" then click I'm Feeling Lucky.
Typing in "unelectable" gets the same page.

Tags: Iraq politics USA