Lars Walker
In the year 1809, the British Navy blockaded Norway. England had nothing against the Norwegians as such, but their country was united with Denmark at the time, and Denmark was allied with Napoleon. Norway has never been able to feed…
The following letter (acquired through a reliable but anonymous transtemporal source) will be written by the Rev. Dr. Judith Hardanger-Hansen, archbishop of the American Archdiocese of the Lutheran Companionship of the Benevolent Deity Spiritual Movement (BDSM), sometime around the second…
Like all conservatives, I’ve been called a Nazi more than once. But only once in my life did I feel like a Nazi. I had a job as a church secretary in a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
A little while back, somebody quoted a line from T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to me. I was thinking what a marvelously prissy name “J. Alfred Prufrock” is, and then it struck me — how…
The following letter (acquired through a reliable but anonymous transtemporal source) will be written by the Rev. Dr. Judith Hardanger-Hansen, archbishop of the American Archdiocese of the Lutheran Companionship of the Benevolent Deity Spiritual Movement (BDSM) sometime around the second…
The following letter (acquired through a reliable but anonymous transtemporal source) will be written by the Rev. Dr. Judith Hardanger-Hansen, archbishop of the American Archdiocese of the Lutheran Companionship of the Benevolent Deity Spiritual Movement (BDSM) sometime around the second…
I see that Mitt Romney’s being accused of another flip-flop, because he said a few years back that Hillary was right, it takes a village to raise a child, and now he says no, it doesn’t take a village. I…
In spite of my British last name, I’m actually a Scandinavian by ancestry. Mostly Norwegian, if it matters. And as a card-carrying Norwegian-American, I’m more or less obligated to disrespect Columbus for Leif Eriksson’s sake. “Columbus was just a self-promoter…
While shopping recently I met another car in a mall lot lane. I could see the driver and passenger plainly. They looked Middle Eastern, and I didn’t know them. But the driver smiled and gave me a little wave. I…
