norway – Amerikanske tilstande

Men Are Not Frogs, Women Are Not Hyacinths, and This is Stupid Stuff

Posted on 2022-12-192022-12-19 by greg nagan

I heard a story on American radio this morning I found hard to believe, then I saw the same story referenced on an American news aggregator, so I sniffed around the usual Danish news sites to see how the story was being covered here. Short answer: it wasn’t. I’m therefore going to lean heavily on…

You have one job

Posted on 2022-08-292022-08-29 by greg nagan

AUDIO NOTE: I haven’t given up on the audio experiment, but the home office is still in disarray due to the renovations that are underway. Audio should resume at some point next week. Berlingske’s “Business Overview” this morning—a round-up of the business news the paper’s business editors consider most newsworthy—includes an item entitled “Denmark, Sweden…

The Taliban’s Great Big Oslo Adventure

Posted on 2022-01-252022-01-25 by greg nagan

Taliban representatives are right now in Norway for a three-day conference with representatives from western governments. The conference is scheduled to end today. I was startled to see coverage of the conference on a news segment Monday evening. Here were avowed members of the Taliban milling around a conference room in Oslo, doing their best…

Reaping What They Sue

Posted on 2021-02-132021-02-13 by greg nagan

An interesting article from DR today: Teens Sue Sweden for Betraying Climate: How It’s Gone in Three Similar Cases, Simon Andersen Nielsen, DR.dk, February 13 It begins with events in Sweden and looks at three similar cases, in Ireland, Holland, and Norway, and explores what it all could mean for Denmark. A group of young…