Blog Archive



February - 2010

  • European Dispatch / Feb 11, 2010 - category: america-and-germany
  • The McCaslin Ledger / Feb 11, 2010 - category: other
  • Berlin Bei Nacht 2 / Feb 10, 2010 - category: berlin
  • Renovations / Feb 10, 2010 - category: other
  • Sarah Palin Doesn't Use Teleprompters / Feb 07, 2010 - category: polemic
  • Berlin Bei Nacht / Feb 04, 2010 - category: berlin
  • Meeting Jon Stewart / Feb 03, 2010 - category: other
  • Time to Pre-Order the Surf Book! / Feb 02, 2010 - category: surfing

  • January - 2010

  • "Duke Kahanamoko" / Jan 31, 2010 - category: surfing
  • O Berlin, What Could You Mean? / Jan 30, 2010 - category: berlin
  • Headline Writing FAIL / Jan 25, 2010 - category: other
  • Berlin Idyll 2 / Jan 23, 2010 - category: berlin
  • Maria in Winter / Jan 18, 2010 - category: berlin
  • Gravity's Rainbow / Jan 08, 2010 - category: other
  • The Annual War Zone / Jan 02, 2010 - category: berlin

  • December - 2009

  • Don't Try This at Home / Dec 30, 2009 - category: surfing
  • From Coney Island to the Sunset Strip / Dec 21, 2009 - category: other
  • Legends of the Fall / Dec 19, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Winter Surf / Dec 11, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Too Much of Nothing on Facebook / Dec 08, 2009 - category: other
  • In the Beginning / Dec 04, 2009 - category: other

  • November - 2009

  • Surfer's Glory / Nov 28, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Assigned Reading / Nov 25, 2009 - category: other
  • Georgism Comes Home to California. (Maybe.) / Nov 23, 2009 - category: other
  • Ladiiiiies and Gentlemen... / Nov 20, 2009 - category: other
  • Top-Notch Coverage / Nov 18, 2009 - category: pirates
  • 'Wrong' / Nov 17, 2009 - category: other
  • The Distance of the Moon / Nov 14, 2009 - category: other
  • NATO and the Pirate War / Nov 13, 2009 - category: pirates
  • An 'Inadvertant Mistake' / Nov 12, 2009 - category: polemic
  • As If That Surf Trip Weren't Bad Enough / Nov 10, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Falling Again / Nov 10, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Günter Schabowski Brings Down Communism / Nov 10, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Or Was It Pink Floyd / Nov 09, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Dreaded Los Angeles Wall / Nov 08, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Autumn Trends in the Pirate War / Nov 06, 2009 - category: pirates
  • Fine Motels of California / Nov 05, 2009 - category: surfing
  • (Almost) Daytime / Nov 02, 2009 - category: other

  • October - 2009

  • The Mexican Eiffel Tower / Oct 30, 2009 - category: other
  • Innaresting! / Oct 29, 2009 - category: other
  • Train to Mombasa / Oct 25, 2009 - category: pirates
  • Him With His Face to the Windshield / Oct 24, 2009 - category: other
  • Birdened With Information / Oct 23, 2009 - category: other
  • Henry George and Health Care / Oct 21, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Ayn Rand in India / Oct 21, 2009 - category: other
  • Nairobi Train Station / Oct 20, 2009 - category: pirates
  • All That Fall / Oct 17, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Who Knew This Was a Problem? / Oct 16, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Let Us Not Praise Famous Men / Oct 14, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Thanks for Your Vigilance / Oct 09, 2009 - category: other
  • Wait / Oct 08, 2009 - category: other
  • Dismantling Democracy in Honduras / Oct 08, 2009 - category: other

  • September - 2009

  • Slow Kenyan Afternoon / Sep 30, 2009 - category: pirates
  • Democracy in Other Countries / Sep 29, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Germany Votes / Sep 27, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Don't Shoot / Sep 25, 2009 - category: pirates
  • Update / Sep 15, 2009 - category: other
  • It's — Not — Funny / Sep 07, 2009 - category: other
  • As Promised / Sep 04, 2009 - category: america-and-germany

  • August - 2009

  • Furthermore / Aug 19, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Crying Hitler / Aug 17, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • "There Was No Rock and Roll on Earth" / Aug 16, 2009 - category: other
  • Riding the Hershey Sugar Train / Aug 13, 2009 - category: other
  • Hot Mess / Aug 12, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Look Out, World / Aug 12, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Making New Friends / Aug 11, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • The New Mexican Neighbors / Aug 07, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Lessons in Rockabilly 3 / Aug 02, 2009 - category: other
  • More Cash for Clunkers! / Aug 01, 2009 - category: america-and-germany

  • July - 2009

  • Lessons in Rockabilly 2 / Jul 23, 2009 - category: other
  • A New Blog! / Jul 23, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Lessons in Rockabilly 1 / Jul 22, 2009 - category: other
  • Desertec and Heat From the Sun / Jul 22, 2009 - category: other
  • Dans La Lune / Jul 20, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Cronkite / Moon / Jul 18, 2009 - category: other
  • Contact Police If You Have Seen This Man / Jul 18, 2009 - category: other
  • Something New to Read! / Jul 15, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • Mel Brooks / Jul 09, 2009 - category: america-and-germany

  • June - 2009

  • A Small Test of Character / Jun 29, 2009 - category: other

  • May - 2009

  • Don't Be Alarmed / May 14, 2009 - category: surfing
  • The Sons of Liberty / May 10, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Please Stop Calling Them Hobbits / May 09, 2009 - category: polemic

  • April - 2009

  • Does Torture Work? / Apr 30, 2009 - category: polemic
  • And Now, Kermit / Apr 21, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Tilting at Turbines / Apr 20, 2009 - category: surfing
  • It's Tax Season / Apr 11, 2009 - category: other
  • Andy Kaufman Plays the Dating Game / Apr 06, 2009 - category: other
  • Hasake Off Gaza Beach / Apr 03, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Surf in Gaza / Apr 02, 2009 - category: surfing
  • In Other Middle East News / Apr 02, 2009 - category: other

  • March - 2009

  • Radio Free Bob / Mar 31, 2009 - category: other
  • Gaza City Street Scene 2 / Mar 24, 2009 - category: other
  • Gaza City Street Scene / Mar 22, 2009 - category: surfing
  • City on a Hill / Mar 22, 2009 - category: berlin
  • One Good Reason to Live in Germany / Mar 16, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • For Real / Mar 15, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Folklórica / Mar 14, 2009 - category: other
  • For the Revolution 2 / Mar 13, 2009 - category: other
  • For the Revolution / Mar 12, 2009 - category: other
  • For Hire / Mar 07, 2009 - category: other
  • For Sale / Mar 03, 2009 - category: other

  • February - 2009

  • Demons and Devils / Feb 15, 2009 - category: polemic
  • And All Those Barbeques With Stalin / Feb 09, 2009 - category: surfing
  • End of an Era / Feb 08, 2009 - category: other
  • Winter in Solana Beach / Feb 05, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Pope Apparently Fallible / Feb 05, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Watching War Films in Germany / Feb 03, 2009 - category: america-and-germany

  • January - 2009

  • Look No Further / Jan 30, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Dear John / Jan 28, 2009 - category: other
  • Winter in Hermosa Beach* / Jan 26, 2009 - category: other
  • Hang Loose Guys and Everything / Jan 22, 2009 - category: surfing
  • Sons of the King / Jan 20, 2009 - category: other
  • Obama and Lincoln / Jan 19, 2009 - category: other
  • Bye-Bye Washington, Bye-Bye Crawford / Jan 18, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Dutch Again / Jan 17, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Little Hitlers / Jan 15, 2009 - category: america-and-germany
  • On the Other Hand / Jan 14, 2009 - category: other
  • Plumber Goes to Israel, Sees What He Expects / Jan 13, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Sex in America / Jan 12, 2009 - category: other
  • Smut Snatchers of the New Order / Jan 11, 2009 - category: other
  • Was Tintin Gay? / Jan 10, 2009 - category: other
  • Computers Suck! / Jan 06, 2009 - category: polemic
  • Hitler's Globes / Jan 05, 2009 - category: berlin
  • Precision Munitions / Jan 04, 2009 - category: polemic

  • December - 2008

  • For the Holidays / Dec 24, 2008 - category: other
  • Another Indigenous African Surf Community / Dec 21, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Berlin Christmas Idyll / Dec 19, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Jet Ski Avenger / Dec 08, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Chet Atkins / Dec 04, 2008 - category: other
  • Two Pieces of Europe / Dec 03, 2008 - category: other

  • November - 2008

  • How's That War on Terrorism? / Nov 30, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Freight Train, Freight Train / Nov 28, 2008 - category: other
  • Reasons for the Turkey Interview / Nov 25, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Pirelli Calendar 2009 / Nov 24, 2008 - category: other
  • So Has Success Changed Sarah Palin? / Nov 21, 2008 - category: other
  • Dear Israel / Nov 20, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Shrimp Running on a Treadmill (With Benny Hill Theme) / Nov 17, 2008 - category: other
  • Gone Camel Surfing / Nov 10, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Cruising Altitude / Nov 09, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Surfing Gaza / Nov 08, 2008 - category: surfing
  • THWAP / Nov 05, 2008 - category: polemic
  • All Fun and Games Until Somone Gets Tagged / Nov 04, 2008 - category: other
  • X in the Day / Nov 03, 2008 - category: other
  • Happy Day of the Dead / Nov 02, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Europe Calling / Nov 02, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Chicago Boy / Nov 01, 2008 - category: other

  • October - 2008

  • Socialism / Oct 29, 2008 - category: polemic
  • The Axis of Diesel / Oct 25, 2008 - category: polemic
  • On the Other Hand / Oct 22, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Shaking the Pom-Poms / Oct 21, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Up From the Basement / Oct 17, 2008 - category: other
  • Dept. of Interesting Lives / Oct 16, 2008 - category: other
  • Political Correctness on the Right / Oct 15, 2008 - category: polemic
  • The Stern of an Old Canoe / Oct 13, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Care and Maintenance of Your Surfboard / Oct 12, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Board Swap / Oct 11, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Bird is the Word, 2 / Oct 09, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Bird is the Word / Oct 08, 2008 - category: surfing
  • The Author's Surfboard / Oct 07, 2008 - category: surfing

  • September - 2008

  • Elephant in the Room / Sep 26, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Letterman On a Rampage / Sep 25, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Presidential Test / Sep 25, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Make Money Or Else / Sep 24, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Vote from Abroad! / Sep 23, 2008 - category: other
  • Sylt Idyll / Sep 16, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Palintology / Sep 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Gone Surfing / Sep 11, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Back to the Salt Mine / Sep 11, 2008 - category: polemic
  • I Swear This Guy Never Says Anything / Sep 10, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Found Art / Sep 08, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Chicks With Guns / Sep 06, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Things Which Are Not / Sep 02, 2008 - category: other
  • Palin Comparison(s) / Sep 02, 2008 - category: other
  • Family Values / Sep 01, 2008 - category: other
  • Caption Contest! / Sep 01, 2008 - category: other

  • August - 2008

  • O Great Oracle / Aug 31, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Modest Proposal / Aug 30, 2008 - category: polemic
  • I Hate Conventions / Aug 27, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Buying Your Surfboard All Over Again / Aug 27, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Oh How Journalists Hate John McCain / Aug 25, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Ambiguous Advice from Your Mother / Aug 23, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Some Parts of America Are Not In America / Aug 19, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Again / Aug 16, 2008 - category: other
  • The Time is Right / Aug 15, 2008 - category: other
  • Speaking of Swimming / Aug 14, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Freeth Stolen By Vandals! / Aug 10, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Palast / Aug 08, 2008 - category: berlin
  • The Liberation of Paris / Aug 06, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Contrarian at Rest / Aug 04, 2008 - category: other
  • Geeks On Wheels / Aug 02, 2008 - category: other
  • Romance in Politics / Aug 01, 2008 - category: america-and-germany

  • July - 2008

  • Earthquake in California! / Jul 31, 2008 - category: other
  • Greendale / Jul 30, 2008 - category: other
  • Once More for Good Measure / Jul 29, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Mike Drinks The Kool Aid / Jul 28, 2008 - category: other
  • How I Wish I Wasn't Here / Jul 28, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Gaffe-tastic! / Jul 25, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Am Grossen Stern / Jul 24, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Liberals and Nazis / Jul 24, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • The First Surfer in Morocco / Jul 24, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Bloggers Flunk History / Jul 23, 2008 - category: polemic
  • It's Obama Week Here at Radio Free Mike / Jul 22, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Even Iraqis Agree That Obama Has Flunked Foreign Policy Already / Jul 21, 2008 - category: polemic
  • And Soldiers Think Obama's a Wimp / Jul 20, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Siegessäule / Jul 18, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Yes We Should (Have) / Jul 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • No We Shouldn't / Jul 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • The Wilhelm Scream Through History / Jul 16, 2008 - category: other
  • First Contact Revisited / Jul 13, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Anatomy of a Story / Jul 11, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Cookin' With Coolio / Jul 08, 2008 - category: other
  • Perspective / Jul 07, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • More Perspective / Jul 07, 2008 - category: polemic
  • I'm Terrible With Birthdays / Jul 05, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Which is Why Germany Needs to Get Over Its Militarist Past Already and Cough Up Troops* / Jul 04, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Miki Dora in Morocco / Jul 04, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Hip! Edgy! Berlin / Jul 03, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • We Do What We're Told / Jul 01, 2008 - category: america-and-germany

  • June - 2008

  • Slick, Rational-Sounding Lunacy / Jun 28, 2008 - category: other
  • Deutschland Heute / Jun 25, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Either/Or / Jun 23, 2008 - category: other
  • Gratuitous Surf Picture / Jun 19, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Darkening the White House Door / Jun 18, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • One Way to Lose Florida / Jun 18, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Ah, Patriotism / Jun 17, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Now I Know Obama Will Win / Jun 17, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Grammar Bitch Online 4 / Jun 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Monster Catfish in Berlin / Jun 11, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Germans Try Again / Jun 10, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Garbage TV Journalism / Jun 10, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Surfing Gaza / Jun 09, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Foot-in-Mouth Disease / Jun 06, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Obama #23 / Jun 05, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Bo in the Day, With Mojo Workin' / Jun 03, 2008 - category: other
  • Grammar Bitch Online 3 / Jun 03, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Bob Dylan's Caretaker's Cat / Jun 02, 2008 - category: other

  • May - 2008

  • Just Kidding, Folks! / May 30, 2008 - category: polemic
  • How Many Times Must a Man Try to Launch a Record-Setting Trip to the Upper Atmosphere? / May 27, 2008 - category: other
  • Surfer Superhero, Super Sexy, Saves Swimmer and Splits! / May 24, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Hageeography / May 23, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Another Thing That Makes it a Strange Year / May 21, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Paskowitz Family Robinson / May 19, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Hey Look / May 18, 2008 - category: other
  • Astonishing / May 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Banned on Google Deutschland / May 16, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Lessons From Commies / May 15, 2008 - category: polemic
  • More at 11 / May 13, 2008 - category: other
  • Plea to Indiana / May 06, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Politicians Who Remain Human / May 04, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Grammar Bitch Online 2 / May 02, 2008 - category: polemic

  • April - 2008

  • Delia Makes a Döner / Apr 29, 2008 - category: other
  • I Did Not Know That / Apr 28, 2008 - category: other
  • If the Waves Are Good / Apr 27, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Shark! / Apr 26, 2008 - category: surfing
  • That Food Crisis Thingy / Apr 23, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Ampelmännchen Don't Surf / Apr 21, 2008 - category: berlin
  • He Always Looks Like He's Casting a Spell / Apr 19, 2008 - category: other
  • Actual Wipeout of the Year / Apr 17, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Ride (and Wipeout) of the Year / Apr 16, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Täglicher Faschismus / Apr 15, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Sun and Surf / Apr 13, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Wanting to Be President / Apr 13, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Crantock Beach on a Typical Day / Apr 12, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Wrecking the Severn Bore / Apr 11, 2008 - category: surfing
  • As If Cornwall Hadn't Been Cold Enough / Apr 06, 2008 - category: surfing

  • March - 2008

  • Surfing Cornwall / Mar 25, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Donkey in a Tutu / Mar 25, 2008 - category: other
  • Curveball and Colin Powell / Mar 23, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • "This is the Subprime Crisis, Brian?" / Mar 21, 2008 - category: polemic
  • More Than Just a Pretty Voice / Mar 18, 2008 - category: other
  • Screaming for Vengeance / Mar 18, 2008 - category: other
  • Bordercrossing Berlin Goes DC / Mar 17, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Grammar Bitch Online / Mar 16, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Happy St. Patrick's Day / Mar 15, 2008 - category: other
  • Oddities of the Internet / Mar 14, 2008 - category: other
  • Spare Spitzer Your Tears / Mar 13, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Send Marines Books / Mar 12, 2008 - category: other
  • Start Your Own Country! / Mar 11, 2008 - category: other
  • God's Middle Finger / Mar 09, 2008 - category: other
  • GYGAX: Hit points -10 / Mar 05, 2008 - category: other
  • Kontroll / Mar 03, 2008 - category: other

  • February - 2008

  • Denis Johnson / Feb 29, 2008 - category: other
  • Meinst Du Es Gibt Kahlköpfe, Die Irgendwie Nicht Schwul Sind? / Feb 26, 2008 - category: other
  • Educating Americans About the World / Feb 23, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Nazis Raus / Feb 22, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Is Ja Wahnsinn / Feb 19, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Just Because He's Rad / Feb 18, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Torture and the War of Humiliation / Feb 17, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Yes, He Was On Medication / Feb 15, 2008 - category: other
  • Michelle Obama for President / Feb 14, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Trestles Saved! / Feb 13, 2008 - category: surfing
  • If John McCain Were a Folk Song / Feb 11, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Puppies and Iraq / Feb 10, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Rush Limbaugh, Raising Dough for Hillary? / Feb 09, 2008 - category: other
  • Stop & Shop / Feb 08, 2008 - category: other
  • The Stuff on McCain / Feb 07, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Carpe Diem Martis / Feb 04, 2008 - category: other
  • Holy City of No Surf / Feb 03, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Mike Rides a Hasake / Feb 02, 2008 - category: surfing

  • January - 2008

  • Tel Aviv Graffiti 2 / Jan 31, 2008 - category: other
  • Tel Aviv Graffiti 1 / Jan 30, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Shiver Me Timbers / Jan 29, 2008 - category: surfing
  • The Return of Hot Dog Boy / Jan 28, 2008 - category: other
  • Mexican Food Update / Jan 27, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Surfing Israel / Jan 25, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Norman, Meet Bill / Jan 24, 2008 - category: polemic
  • The Atlantic's Paywall is Down / Jan 22, 2008 - category: other
  • Really a Lot Easier With a Board / Jan 21, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Nous Sommes Très Désolés / Jan 20, 2008 - category: polemic
  • Shakespeare & Co. / Jan 17, 2008 - category: other
  • Dashboard Turtle / Jan 13, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Surf Nation / Jan 12, 2008 - category: surfing
  • Elegy / Jan 11, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Deal! / Jan 10, 2008 - category: surfing
  • One Pretty Good Reason / Jan 09, 2008 - category: polemic
  • The Great Radio Free Mike Surf Wiki / Jan 08, 2008 - category: surfing
  • The Worst Meal in Berlin / Jan 07, 2008 - category: berlin
  • Märchenkönig / Jan 05, 2008 - category: america-and-germany
  • Same Procedure / Jan 01, 2008 - category: berlin

  • December - 2007

  • Happy New Year to All My Liberal Fascist Friends / Dec 30, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Morning Glass / Dec 24, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Le Surfing / Dec 15, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Okay / Dec 06, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Bordercrossing Berlin 3 / Dec 04, 2007 - category: other
  • Sylt / Dec 01, 2007 - category: surfing

  • November - 2007

  • Catch-18? / Nov 26, 2007 - category: other
  • Open House / Nov 25, 2007 - category: other
  • Florentine TV / Nov 20, 2007 - category: other
  • Florentine Architectural Flourish / Nov 17, 2007 - category: other
  • Florentine Street Art / Nov 17, 2007 - category: other
  • Vote Early and Often / Nov 12, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Norman Mailer Has Died / Nov 10, 2007 - category: other
  • Berlin Circa 1930! / Nov 09, 2007 - category: america-and-germany

  • October - 2007

  • Crittercam! / Oct 30, 2007 - category: other
  • Torture and Truth / Oct 28, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Oh No! / Oct 27, 2007 - category: berlin
  • California Fires from the Space Shuttle / Oct 25, 2007 - category: other
  • Reader Response / Oct 23, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Bards of Berlin / Oct 22, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Get Your Shit Together, Man / Oct 20, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Greetings from Berlin / Oct 16, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Doris Lessing / Oct 11, 2007 - category: polemic
  • We're Not in Kansas Anymore / Oct 10, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • When Life Gives You Tree Stumps, / Oct 02, 2007 - category: other
  • That Frog Metaphor / Oct 01, 2007 - category: other

  • September - 2007

  • Sweetness and Light / Sep 29, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Driving in L.A. / Sep 28, 2007 - category: other
  • Reduced to This / Sep 27, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Marcel Marceau / Sep 24, 2007 - category: other
  • Again With the Personal Freedom / Sep 22, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Quark Ball Weather / Sep 21, 2007 - category: berlin
  • "Hitler's Globe is Missing" / Sep 20, 2007 - category: berlin
  • What the Fuck? / Sep 18, 2007 - category: polemic
  • The Mexican Berlin Wall / Sep 17, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Future of Russia? / Sep 15, 2007 - category: other
  • "Digital Literacy" / Sep 10, 2007 - category: other
  • Bin Laden is Dead / Sep 08, 2007 - category: other
  • "Hot Dog Boy" / Sep 07, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Microwave Popcorn is Evil / Sep 06, 2007 - category: other
  • Preemptive Strike / Sep 03, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Scary / Sep 02, 2007 - category: polemic

  • August - 2007

  • Lily Allen's Third Nipple / Aug 30, 2007 - category: other
  • Gon, Baby, Gone / Aug 28, 2007 - category: other
  • That Vietnam Analogy 2 / Aug 28, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Wimps / Aug 26, 2007 - category: other
  • Oh Gag Me / Aug 26, 2007 - category: polemic
  • About That Vietnam Analogy / Aug 25, 2007 - category: other
  • More Dead American Writers / Aug 24, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Grace Paley / Aug 24, 2007 - category: other
  • Doing His Bit for Transatlantic Relations / Aug 23, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • "The Vanishing Right to Travel," and Go to Yosemite, and Check Out Books... / Aug 21, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Tomorrow on Kulturradio / Aug 21, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Amanda Palmer, a Photo Essay / Aug 21, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Berlin, Poor But Sexy / Aug 20, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Russia = Zimbabwe? / Aug 19, 2007 - category: other
  • Piano Repair Shop, Berlin / Aug 17, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Mama Mia 2 / Aug 17, 2007 - category: other
  • Is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Outfit? / Aug 15, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Oh, But I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now / Aug 14, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Roll Over, Dick Van Dyke / Aug 13, 2007 - category: other
  • I Keep Trying / Aug 11, 2007 - category: other
  • Use / Non-Use / Aug 10, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Hookerville, USA / Aug 09, 2007 - category: other
  • Quiz: Why Is This Man Not Smiling? / Aug 08, 2007 - category: other
  • Missile Hits Potato Field / Aug 08, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Oh Look / Aug 07, 2007 - category: america-and-germany

  • July - 2007

  • The Hollow Trees! / Jul 31, 2007 - category: other
  • Ingmar Bergman Just Died / Jul 30, 2007 - category: other
  • Give Me a Fecking Break / Jul 29, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Don't Wanna Hurt No Kangaroo / Jul 28, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Bavarian Pride / Jul 22, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Surf Centennial / Jul 21, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Unbearable / Jul 20, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Rumormongering / Jul 18, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Obama Girl Does Street Battle With Her Nemesis / Jul 18, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Notorious / Jul 15, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Reminder / Jul 13, 2007 - category: berlin
  • For All My Efforts / Jul 12, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Top Five Headlines / Jul 11, 2007 - category: other
  • L'Origine du Monde / Jul 10, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Reminder / Jul 09, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Here's One Way Vanity Fair Can Be Lame / Jul 09, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Har-Har / Jul 08, 2007 - category: polemic
  • A San Franciscan's Worst Nightmare / Jul 07, 2007 - category: other
  • Ah, Summer in Berlin / Jul 06, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Busying Giddy Minds / Jul 02, 2007 - category: polemic

  • June - 2007

  • Just a Hunch / Jun 30, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Excuse Me a Minute / Jun 30, 2007 - category: other
  • But I Was Just Out of Breath / Jun 29, 2007 - category: other
  • Bad Photo Choice of the Day Award / Jun 26, 2007 - category: other
  • North African Chow Recommendation / Jun 26, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Mike Reads / Jun 25, 2007 - category: other
  • Berlin in 3-D! / Jun 24, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Light Dawns / Jun 24, 2007 - category: other
  • Chinua Achebe / Jun 23, 2007 - category: other
  • I Figured I Was Being Naïve / Jun 22, 2007 - category: other
  • This is What I Was Just Talking About / Jun 19, 2007 - category: other
  • Gratuitous Obama-Girl Love / Jun 17, 2007 - category: other
  • Slippage / Jun 16, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Huell Howser Parody Puppet! / Jun 13, 2007 - category: other
  • Mr. Gorbachev... / Jun 12, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Little Girl Found / Jun 12, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Price Tag is the Art / Jun 11, 2007 - category: other
  • Huell Howser Abetting Illegal Immigrants / Jun 10, 2007 - category: other
  • Miss World? / Jun 09, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Liberation of Paris / Jun 08, 2007 - category: other
  • Exactly One Post on the G-8 Summit / Jun 08, 2007 - category: polemic
  • "Where's the Fence?" / Jun 07, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • How Cursors Work / Jun 02, 2007 - category: other

  • May - 2007

  • Too Much of Nothing, the Movie / May 29, 2007 - category: other
  • Foreign Relations / May 16, 2007 - category: berlin
  • We Come in Peace / May 13, 2007 - category: other
  • Ach So / May 11, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Here's How You Do Old Hippie Standards / May 06, 2007 - category: other
  • Bob in Berlin / May 04, 2007 - category: america-and-germany

  • April - 2007

  • People Try to Put Us Down... / Apr 19, 2007 - category: other
  • Utterly Shameless / Apr 09, 2007 - category: berlin
  • VI##AGRA CHEAP!! / Apr 03, 2007 - category: other
  • A Roundup of Wonderful Things / Apr 01, 2007 - category: other

  • March - 2007

  • Yawn (Sorry) / Mar 31, 2007 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • Desert Philosophy / Mar 29, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Endangered Species / Mar 22, 2007 - category: berlin
  • But Are the Singers Stoned? / Mar 20, 2007 - category: other
  • "How Many People Still Think Al Gore Said He Invented the Internet?" / Mar 19, 2007 - category: polemic
  • A Seat at the Council / Mar 18, 2007 - category: other
  • Noted / Mar 12, 2007 - category: other
  • Brussels Has Its Own Brandenburger Tor / Mar 09, 2007 - category: other
  • The Most Insidious of Traitors / Mar 09, 2007 - category: polemic
  • CBS Has a Posse (in Brussels) / Mar 04, 2007 - category: berlin

  • February - 2007

  • Future Shock / Feb 26, 2007 - category: other
  • Muslims in Germany / Feb 21, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Dynamite Surfing in Copenhagen / Feb 19, 2007 - category: surfing
  • How to Raise Real Estate Prices in Berlin 1 / Feb 17, 2007 - category: other
  • Will Opposing Counsel Please Quit Horning in on My Wave? / Feb 11, 2007 - category: surfing
  • Teaching Shame to the Shameless / Feb 09, 2007 - category: polemic
  • This Commercial / Feb 07, 2007 - category: polemic
  • History Lesson / Feb 06, 2007 - category: other
  • Manamana! / Feb 04, 2007 - category: other
  • Lying About War / Feb 03, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Pariser Platz / Feb 01, 2007 - category: america-and-germany

  • January - 2007

  • Mark Your Calendars / Jan 30, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Bashing Obama / Jan 29, 2007 - category: polemic
  • God, Finally / Jan 25, 2007 - category: berlin
  • Stropping the Razor / Jan 24, 2007 - category: other
  • Honesty Test / Jan 23, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Representin' the West Side, Yo / Jan 20, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Great Kreuzberg Tamalada / Jan 19, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • All This Site Did Was Make Me Laugh / Jan 16, 2007 - category: other
  • Just Move the Polar Bears to the Central Valley / Jan 15, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • One Problem Germany Doesn't Have / Jan 14, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Reasons I Don't Want an iPhone / Jan 11, 2007 - category: america-and-germany
  • Diz for Prez / Jan 10, 2007 - category: other
  • Letting Him Dangle / Jan 08, 2007 - category: polemic
  • Boing Boing / Jan 02, 2007 - category: america-and-germany

  • December - 2006

  • Happy New Year, Folks / Dec 31, 2006 - category: other
  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Dec 29, 2006 - category: other
  • A Mosque in East Berlin / Dec 28, 2006 - category: berlin
  • California Idyll / Dec 28, 2006 - category: other
  • Saddam to be Executed / Dec 27, 2006 - category: other
  • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen / Dec 24, 2006 - category: other
  • Jesus / Dec 22, 2006 - category: other
  • He Sounds German / Dec 22, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Idomeneo Without Violence. Almost. / Dec 21, 2006 - category: berlin
  • I Promise Not to Do Too Many of These, But / Dec 21, 2006 - category: other
  • That's a Good One / Dec 20, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Stoners Rediscover Socialism / Dec 20, 2006 - category: other
  • No Smoking Indoors! / Dec 19, 2006 - category: other
  • 21st-Century Cash / Dec 15, 2006 - category: other
  • Merry Xmas / Dec 14, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Americans Create Their Own Reality 2 / Dec 12, 2006 - category: other
  • Americans Create Their Own Reality / Dec 10, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Ah, Winter in Berlin / Dec 10, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Sweaty Palms, Broken Widescreen / Dec 09, 2006 - category: other
  • Oof / Dec 07, 2006 - category: other
  • Shameless Territorial Pissing / Dec 06, 2006 - category: surfing
  • First of All / Dec 06, 2006 - category: other

  • November - 2006

  • Pink Fairy Armadillos / Nov 28, 2006 - category: other
  • Bordercrossing Berlin / Nov 27, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Not Racist! / Nov 26, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Elements of Style / Nov 25, 2006 - category: other
  • Hard Core / Nov 22, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Ost-Block / Nov 21, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Streetcar Idyll / Nov 20, 2006 - category: other
  • Vertigo on the Prague Subway Escalator / Nov 19, 2006 - category: other
  • Euroweenies! / Nov 18, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Prague TV Tower From a Distance / Nov 15, 2006 - category: other
  • The Real Borat is Turkish! / Nov 14, 2006 - category: other
  • Donald Rumsfeld as a source of entertainment / Nov 14, 2006 - category: polemic
  • The Prague TV Tower / Nov 13, 2006 - category: other
  • Not Quite Getting It / Nov 12, 2006 - category: other
  • Mike Submits to the Page 69 Test / Nov 11, 2006 - category: other
  • All the Enemies of America / Nov 10, 2006 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • The Trilobite Restaurant, Prague / Nov 10, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 7 / Nov 08, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 6 / Nov 07, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 5 / Nov 06, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 4 / Nov 05, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 3 / Nov 04, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 2 / Nov 03, 2006 - category: other
  • Quiz Time! - Question 1 / Nov 01, 2006 - category: other

  • October - 2006

  • My Contribution to Halloween, / Oct 30, 2006 - category: other
  • You Think You're Having Fun / Oct 29, 2006 - category: berlin
  • The Source of the Dive / Oct 27, 2006 - category: berlin
  • The Eisbach Gang / Oct 16, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Earwigs Attack! / Oct 14, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Wholly Deserved / Oct 12, 2006 - category: other
  • Covering for the Mothership / Oct 11, 2006 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • More Surfing Capers! / Oct 09, 2006 - category: surfing
  • A Weekend With Medienkritik / Oct 08, 2006 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • Surfing Capers! / Oct 07, 2006 - category: surfing
  • Alert Alert Alert / Oct 07, 2006 - category: other
  • Usage Note: Islamofascism / Oct 05, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Idomeneo Murmurs / Oct 04, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Stevie Wonder on Musikladen / Oct 01, 2006 - category: america-and-germany

  • September - 2006

  • Christ, No Wonder / Sep 29, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Canning Mozart / Sep 27, 2006 - category: berlin
  • More Eisbach, Shamelessly / Sep 27, 2006 - category: surfing
  • Blog Carnival of US-German Relations / Sep 26, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Fish in a Barrel / Sep 24, 2006 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • Just to Be Clear / Sep 24, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Trimming the Eisbach / Sep 23, 2006 - category: surfing
  • Nazis / Sep 22, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Free Speech in the West / Sep 20, 2006 - category: davids-medienkritik
  • More on Obama / Sep 19, 2006 - category: polemic
  • The Decline of English / Sep 18, 2006 - category: other
  • Rise of the Meatheads 2 / Sep 18, 2006 - category: polemic
  • The Pope Outrage / Sep 15, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Banksy / Sep 15, 2006 - category: other
  • Eisbach Pipeline / Sep 13, 2006 - category: surfing
  • Aufruf / Sep 13, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Human Oddities / Sep 05, 2006 - category: other

  • August - 2006

  • Landluft Limburg / Aug 30, 2006 - category: other
  • McCarthyite "Anti-Semitism" Watch / Aug 29, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Come On, Out There in Television Land / Aug 28, 2006 - category: other
  • Satellite of Love / Aug 27, 2006 - category: other
  • But it Was Very Nice / Aug 24, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Someone Tell MI5 / Aug 23, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Theme Song / Aug 22, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Robot Blogging / Aug 21, 2006 - category: other
  • Pirates Everywhere, Too / Aug 19, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Anti-Semites Everywhere! 2 / Aug 18, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Anti-Semites Everywhere! / Aug 16, 2006 - category: polemic
  • And the Winner Is... / Aug 16, 2006 - category: polemic
  • There Goes the Neighborhood 3 / Aug 14, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Another Pile of Nonsense from the Huffington Post / Aug 13, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Günter Grass Really Did Fight in a Tank / Aug 12, 2006 - category: other
  • There Goes the Neighborhood 2 / Aug 11, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Joe Lieberman and the American Way / Aug 11, 2006 - category: polemic
  • As If There Were Nothing Else to Drink / Aug 09, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Pickle That Looks Like a Fish / Aug 08, 2006 - category: other
  • Germans Have No Sense of Personal Space / Aug 07, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Subtropical Berlin / Aug 06, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Like the Sound of One Hand Clapping / Aug 06, 2006 - category: other
  • Onward and Upward / Aug 05, 2006 - category: other
  • Priceless / Aug 05, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Tropical Berlin 4 / Aug 03, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Achsels of Evil / Aug 01, 2006 - category: other

  • July - 2006

  • Scuttling Diplomacy / Jul 30, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Liftoff / Jul 30, 2006 - category: other
  • Tropical Berlin 3 / Jul 29, 2006 - category: berlin
  • That Merkel Massage / Jul 28, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Tropical Berlin 2 / Jul 27, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Department of Pretty Lame Ideas / Jul 26, 2006 - category: other
  • Department of Pretty Lame Ideas II / Jul 26, 2006 - category: other
  • Tropical Berlin / Jul 25, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Q'est-ce que c'est? / Jul 22, 2006 - category: other
  • What, Me Worry? / Jul 21, 2006 - category: polemic
  • Birth of the Blues / Jul 21, 2006 - category: other
  • Some Like it Hot / Jul 20, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Surfin' Europe / Jul 18, 2006 - category: surfing
  • Hard to Know Where to Start Dept. / Jul 15, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Behind the Curtain / Jul 12, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • Department of Contradictory Food / Jul 10, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Allez les bleus! Oh fuck. / Jul 09, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Klinsmann Watch / Jul 08, 2006 - category: america-and-germany
  • The Legendary / Jul 08, 2006 - category: other
  • There Goes the Neighborhood / Jul 06, 2006 - category: berlin
  • Mama Mia / Jul 06, 2006 - category: berlin