What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
Very busy week—youngest is being confirmed on Saturday—so I apologize for the recent lack of content here. That lack is going to continue through the weekend. Paid subscribers will as always be credited appropriately. There is some new stuff over on the Substack, so mosey on over there if you’re interested. Regularish blogging will resume…
Suffering people deserve our compassion and mercy. As an 89-year-old woman in a relatively advanced state of dementia, recently hospitalized for shingles, Diane Feinstein is certainly seem entitled at least that much. But only as an 89-year-old woman. As California’s senior representative in the U.S. Senate, however, she deserves nothing but our contempt. After all,…
In case you missed it, last weekend a person said some things. The person was French President Emmanuel Macron. The things he said were during a state visit to China and then in an interview on the airplane home. Some of the things he said were published Sunday in Politico. Europe must reduce its dependency on…
Yesterday—Saturday, April 7—I posted a Substack article about something that had been gnawing at me for a long time: the destructive force of feminization in western politics and culture. It’s not a misogynistic perspective—I bent over backwards to make that clear—just a sense that the stigmatization of masulinity and maleness is wreaking havoc on our…
I was surprised to see that as of 7:00 this morning, there was only one article on DR.dk having to do with yesterday’s arraignment of former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York. Then, suddenly, by 7:15 there were four. The top of their website looked like this: In English: Trump tore into everything from…
Danmarks Radio (DR) published a multimedia presentation on their website this weekend. The teaser text on their homepage was “Carl was a top executive—and changed sex. As Caroline, she now knows that women have it much harder in the workplace.” Preach, Caroline! Or rather: mansplain! This guy literally went home from work as a man…
(I didn’t even mention it in this space, but last week marked the 20th anniversary of my arrival in Denmark. The milestone was commemorated over on the Nagan Of Copenhagen Substack.) On Saturday, taxpayer-funded Danmarks Radio (DR) ran an article about Russia assuming the presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of April….
The coverage is everywhere. So are the hot takes. I have no coverage to offer and I don’t do hot takes. A New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump yesterday and the indictment is sealed. That means we don’t know what he’s been charged with. We’re told that Trump’s attorneys have been in communication with…
Wait, what? The 8:00 radio news update from ABC News, delivered by the insufferably biased Richard Cantu, included an audio clip of someone lamenting that mass shootings have become so widespread in America that even women are getting in on the act. I found that remarkable. I did a quick search online and found the…
Western governments have gotten very good at doing things they were never intended to do and very bad at the handful of things they were intended to do. Strike that. Western government haven’t been very good at doing anything for decades, but they’ve been squandering our money and reputation on elective absurdities while ignoring what…
A couple of recent opinion columns by Berlingske Tidende’s opinion editor Pierre Collignon offer some hopeful signs that at least parts of Denmark’s thinking class may have begun to realize the depth of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. . . and may have begun speculating on ways to actually climb out of it. Collignon…
Norman Bates, call your office. If you had “normalization of psychopathy” on your What Fresh Hell Is This bingo card, congratulations! She lives in a way few people know about. Here is Sheila’s life as a psychopath.Anne Funch, Berlingske.dk, March 19 When I tell strangers that I’m a psychopath, I always add: “And on paper….
(I’m back after a week off including a few glorious days in Tallinn, Estonia. There’ll be an article about that trip over on Nagan of Copenhagen soon, if it’s not already there.) We begin (as one must) with disclaimers, disclosures, confessions, and context. I’m grateful for a lot of the things Donald Trump was able…
Denmark has until now been spared the worst excesses of the culture war underway in America, but the Rubicon has been crossed. Fort Sumter has been fired upon. The Archduke has been assassinated. It’s here. I had actually thought Denmark had a stronger immune system. I thought we might have some kind of natural immunity…
The Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is back in the news. Media: German police have located mysterious boat on Christiansø. Was used for attacks on Nord Stream, they claimMikkel Danielsen, Berlingske.dk, March 8 Long story short: five men and a woman using false passports rented a boat from a Polish boat rental agency in Poland. The…
Everyone knows that Joe Biden isn’t up for another full term in office. A majority of Democratic primary voters want someone other than Biden. Establishment news outlets regularly feature items on the back-room chatter of Democratic muckety-mucks still supporting Biden publicly but scrambling behind the scenes for a viable alternative. Those Democrats don’t oppose Biden…
For more than three decades (from 1976 to 2009), legendary American radio newsman Paul Harvey used to have a feature called “The Rest of the Story” in which he’d present short stories on every manner of subject, with one key element left out—usually the well-known name of the person at the center of the usually…
Show me a headline that tells me you’re one of Denmark’s ace U.S. correspondents without telling me you’re one of Denmark’s ace U.S. correspondents. Here’s the best-selling car in Europe and the best-selling in America. Americans are killing each other with giant cars. That’s yesterdau’s Berlingske’s headline over an article by ace U.S. correspondent Mikkel…
