"European seeming" is NOT foreign policy experience

Here's what my brain does when I see TV from the Netherlands or something:
1) not right
2) this looks cheap
3) too many colors
4) porn?
5) not right
6) poor or rich?
7) computer-generated or realer than anything I've ever seen?
8) "flatness" has been redefined for me
9) America is the greatest of world countries

Here's me when I see Sarah Palin, especially new Sarah Palin who only wears future-tunics:
1) not right
2) this looks cheap
3) too many colors
4) porn?
5) not right
6) poor or rich?
7) computer-generated or realer than anything I've ever seen?
8) "flatness" has been redefined for me
9) America is the greatest of world countries

Notice how anything is the same?

Sarah Palin: Good for reminding me why Ugly Betty makes me feel uncomfortable, bad for America.




[S. Ziz writes about how current-style American conservative nationalism is actually future-oriented internationalism in his The Ticklish Subject. This is me saying that, for those of you who think I'm racist. I'm just being like him. For those of you who think I'm a fat fuck Matrix-style unnecessarily violent System of a Down bit-torrenting asshole nerd: touche.]

Europe: Handle your boys

These articles are both on a Reuter's page that popped up on my gmail adsense

"Cremated son" turns up alive


and


Boys to swap homes 4 years after mix-up


What is happening to boys in Europe? Have you ever seen the European version of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody"? It's like the American version only they play up the neglect in the uniquely European way of letting the boys go missing for days and then replacing them with other boys and the ashes of dead boys.


And then on the same page, they hit me with the scariest headline ever written, taking care to make sure I don't even see it coming


Comes out of nowhere and just kills you. Just like the Nazi Death Head Doctor, who is apparently STILL ON THE LOOSE.