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• Puff the Magic Dragon and Florida as I recall
  on Feb 29, 2012 in Sweden florida puff the magic dragon deborah fronko spiro agnew
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in Sweden Gothenburg, SwedenMy friend’s child has impetigo and this reminded me of Florida. I lived there between the ages of two and a half and fourteen. To survive in Sweden, I’ve supressed memories of...
• In Flames and ABBA fans clash in Kabul
  on Jan 21, 2012 in Sweden In Flames Volvo Afghanistan deborah fronko ABBA
  Demonstrations rocked Kabul today as ABBA and In Flames fans clashed in the city center. ABBA, the Swedish pop band formed in Stockholm in 1972, has a greater following in Afghanistan than anywhere else in the world. Afghani youth regularly trash kar...
• Volvo Battles Toyota in Afghanistan
  on Jan 17, 2012 in Volvo Toyota deborah fronko Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
  Eva Lönneberg, spokesperson for Volvo International Suffering market losses in Afghanistan to the popular Toyota Terror model, Volvo has changed tactics and gone aggressive. Volvo suffers losses in AfghanistanThe Toyota Terror steals market shares...
• Volvo providing airbags for all kidnap victims and goats in 2012
  on Jan 5, 2012 in Volvo Personvagnar Afghanistan Toyota deborah fronko Blackwater
  Volvo’s priority in 2012 is airbags in the trunks of all models sold in Afghanistan - for the safety of American kidnap victims and of Afghani goats, according to spokesperson Eva Lönneberg.Eva Lönneberg, spokesperson for VolvoA spokesperson for...
• Volvo: wheels for evil-doers
  on Jan 2, 2012 in Volvo List of words banished deborah fronko Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in Sweden There are words and phrases that I have banned from my lips. Why? Because Dad used them. He said stuff like; hot damn, vittles, and goin’ cattin’. I assume that hot damn, always pronounced with...
• Volvo: wheels for evil-doers and banished words
  on Jan 2, 2012 in Volvo List of words banished deborah fronko Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
  There are words and phrases that I have banned from my lips. Why? Because Dad used them. He said stuff like; hot damn, vittles, and goin’ cattin’. I assume that hot damn, always pronounced with an exclamation mark, was Dad’s way of cursing with...
• From the domain where Madonna and Angelina get babies
  on Dec 18, 2011 in Sweden angelina jolie deborah fronko madonna russian strategic rocket forces
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenI updated my website. I use a host that offers a free service and a subscription service. I use the free service. The upside is that it is free; the downside is that it takes centuries to logon and wh...
• From California with many bagagges, as Yoko would say
  on Nov 30, 2011 in Ubåt Sweden California Africa yoko ono deborah fronko Advent Chai
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenNow it’s Advent, a Lutheran season in Sweden and a Catholic season in the rest of the world. Confusing, I know, but what do you expect from a country where it rains even when the skies are clear. In...
• From California with many baggages, as Yoko would say
  on Nov 30, 2011 in Ubåt Sweden California Africa yoko ono deborah fronko Advent Chai
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenNow it’s Advent, a Lutheran season in Sweden and a Catholic season in the rest of the world. Confusing, I know, but what do you expect from a country where it rains even when the skies are clear. In...
• Hot wishes, Putin
  on Nov 23, 2011 in Russian deborah fronko Putin duck and cover English
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in Sweden I had a head-on collision with Russian English this week. It was a shallow encounter but gave me insight into the tidal waves of misunderstanding that must flood international corresponden...
• I'm sexist - pinch my bottom
  on Nov 19, 2011 in Åhlens Sweden California systembolaget Berlusconi deborah fronko
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in Sweden(Cultural differences in Gothenburg, Sweden)It’s nearing the end of the first semester at colleges and universities all round the world, and sex is in the air. I attended a conference on Equal Treat...
• I don't speak English, I'm from California
  on Nov 12, 2011 in Uppsala University Sweden California Sadomasochistic teacher deborah fronko Nordic Barbarian
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenTeachers of the English language in Sweden come in two flavors. Not Lutheran and somber as you may have guessed, but sadomasochistic and Nordic barbarian. An English teacher who is a classroom sadomas...
• I'm not xenophobic, I just wanted a cup of coffee
  on Nov 4, 2011 in Sweden prinskorv California deborah fronko Apostrophe Protection Society
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenI attended a lecture the other day – one of those quasi-highbrow events, held at an institution of higher learning conveniently after work but before bedtime, for middle-aged, highbrow wannabes. I w...
• White people come in different shades, too.
  on Oct 24, 2011 in California Rita Moreno Göteborgs konstmuseum deborah fronko Gothenburg
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenThe movie West Side Story is fifty years old. In an interview on NPR Hispanic actor Rita Moreno, one of the original cast, says that there was only one shade of make-up for Latinos back...
• Jag talkar Swedish
  on Oct 14, 2011 in Sweden California Grand Cayman deborah fronko Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenThe somber Swede is a humble creature and finds all forms of excess and all forms of boasting unacceptable. This makes the Swede a schmuck for American Ponzi schemes disguised as business networks. Th...
• Report from the Gutter
  on Sep 24, 2011 in Sweden staffan nordstrand tidningen camino Göteborg book fair deborah fronko under floden
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in Sweden (Cultural differences in Gothenburg, Sweden)Swedes – somber politically correct Lutherans – don’t get off on sexual intercourse like the rest of humanity. Swedes get off on social pornography.
• Tired of getting screwed by the founding fathers of the English language?
  on Sep 10, 2011 in Sweden Cornelia Schmidt Swedish schools Valand Konsthögskola deborah fronko Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
  Book Release September 14 in Gothenburg, SwedenPhoto: Cornelia SchmidtThere are more than 100 English dialects. This means that the rules that are taught in Sweden only apply in the Swedish school system to the version of English that is taught here.
• What the fudge am I doing here?
  on Aug 3, 2011 in Sweden California deborah fronko
  Professional writers often blog so they can use the F word in print without getting their publisher in trouble and I confess to being guilty of this. But no more. I take pity on the scores of men in Indonesia, the Middle East and other countries in m...
• Ryanair discriminates sheep
  on Jul 11, 2011 in Alexander Skarsård SATC Sarah Jessica Parker Kate Bosworth Ryanair deborah fronko Manolo Blahnik
  Your politically incorrect correspondent in SwedenHave you seen the Ryanair Safety Card? It’s the card with illustrated instructions in the event of an emergency. What catches my eye is the part with three crossed out red circles. I know that a cro...
• Descartes was bi
  on May 15, 2011 in Joel Kinnaman Lill Babs Metallica Gloria Gaynor Melancholia Lars von Trier deborah fronko The Killing Descartes
  In The Killing, starring Swedish – American hunk runner-up Joel Kinnaman, a Seattle politician is concerned about the Somali vote. You will never hear a Swedish politician express any concern about the Somali vote, or the Californian vote for that...

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