European Values

Owen | Politics | Monday, January 31st, 2005

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

So, our moral elders in Europe have decided that sex slavery is a legitimate aim of government.

… but liberating a country of 25 million people. How dare we!

Fox is Bush’s Propaganda Arm?

Owen | Politics | Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

“Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind — we wish him well.”

A Fox spokesman responding to Ted Turner’s comparison of Fox and the Bush Admin to Hitler.

Warm Winter

Owen | Russia | Sunday, January 16th, 2005

This is a ridiculously warm winter. Today is the first time in well over a week that there’s snow on the ground. It’s been raining for the past two weeks, and there hasn’t been snow that you had to walk in since before New Year’s.

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