• February 13, 2012

prime minister

We last heard of “Iceland” in the fall during those first exciting weeks of the Global Great Depression, when our proudly “interconnected” global economy did what it ultimately was designed to do: self-implode all at once. Since most/all of Iceland’s prosperity in the last decade was derived from a burgeoning financial sector, all of its [...]

Many have asked Wonkette to chime in on the insane constitutional crisis embroiling Canada’s idiot government these days, which is shocking, because well-to-do white nerd countries had supposedly given up on such uncouth measures as overthrowing the state. Slate’s posted a thorough summary of the whole thing; and if you’d like an “authentic” Canadian newspaper [...]

Sergei Stanishev, the prime minister of Bulgaria, was stuck on a cable car at a ski resort for an hour yesterday. The power went out, which apparently happens all the time over there, in Bulgaria, because they keep building things even though they don’t have electricity or roads and other such Western luxuries. After the [...]