Sometimes after a good night's sleep, you wake up alive. You spring out of bed, hit the coffee-maker, take a shower, brush your teeth, put on some energetic music, think excitedly about what this week will bring.

Then you check your weather applet.

Feh. Europe sucks.

UPDATE:

Of course, it doesn't get anybetter when you change your settings to home.

Sigh.

Welp, he best part about having your own web site is the ability to snoop through the logs, spying on your visitors as they innocently drift through the Internet,looking for pictures of drunk men, or Jon Ritter.

Here, with numbers blanked out to hide my pathetic traffic statistics, is my otherwise unabridged Webalyzer search analysis.

The most interesting search has to be number 17. I'm really curious to find out exactly what page they found with that search string. I'll have to do some dumpster-diving to get it, though.

A year ago, I wrote some off-hand stuff about the French intrusion in the Ivory Coast. I hate it when I'm so right.

EU Politicians: These are the world's worst hypocrites. They concern themselves so much with american politics that they have no idea what's going on at home. The blackouts in the USA and Canada were huge news over here, but the even-bigger blackouts in Italy and France were hardly even covered. As were the 13,000+ deaths in France during that horrible 85-degree heat wave over the summer. Sure, it was in the news. You could find it on page 2, right after the story called "USA: Buried in a Hot Sandy Hell".

It's kind of sad really. People here rely on the US for entertainment, escape, and self-worth. They absolutely can't stand it when the US does something that's beyond their control, e.g. Iraq. In a way, they revel in bashing Americans the same way that failed writers revel in being snarky book critics. It's so much easier to feel better about yourself by harping on other people than it is to actually make yourself better.

There's also a drama factor, of course. Iraq was a big, dramatic, momentous event, as was 9/11. Small, ugly things like France's vicious crackdown in the Ivory Coast, which has been running since last year and there's no end in sight, are not good news for Europeans. They don't want to see it. They want to read about the latest follies of those magna nova americans.

Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude, as the saying goes. Euros need to get their heads out of their asses and take a look at their own problems. The Ivory Coast is spiralling out of control, and will be a wasteland before long. There are hundreds of thousands of refugees, a looming famine, and rising Islamist radicalism.

Just don't come crying to us for help: We just might give it, and make you look like the post-Imperialist weaklings you really are.

Roy, of famous german entertainment act Siegfried and Roy, has been attacked by his tiger, which dragged him off-stage by his throat, and is in the hospital.

Well, they don't look so tough to me in this picture.

I've now been klinikally diaknost, by a Dokter no les, as bean totally inkompentent.

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Comments:

you are totally inkompentent.....

Firstly, 'Doc', you're an idiot. Second, you can't spell. Third, you can't debate. Fourth, you present your ideas like a three year old. Fifth, you shouldn't use big words if you can neither spell nor understand them. Sixth, there are only three dots in an ellipsis, not five. Seventh, I don't believe for a minute that's your real email address. And finally, if you're a doctor, you can afford a real newspaper instead of slumming around private bloggers' pages. Unless, of course, the communist medical system in Denmark doesn't actually pay doctors, which may be the case.