Here in Sweden we used to have a service called Brafilm, which, like Netflix, would send DVDs to your home. You could subscribe to having one, two, or three DVDs at home at the same time. This was great, as…
Category: Europe
Raoul Wallenberg and Lidingö
Last Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. He was born in his family’s then-summer house, here on the island…
Sweden beats the depression
Sweden was the centerpiece of the Colbert Report on June 18. First of all, Stephen continues his campaign to take over the #sweden twitter account. He thinks he can do it better than people who actually live in Sweden: …
But no one important wants Greece to leave the euro
Greeks go to the polls this weekend to choose a new parliament. And it seems like the entire world media are calling it a choice between staying in the euro zone and leaving. But I don’t see how the pundits…