June, 2007

Flooded

We had just finished one of our work Saturdays, our irregular fix-up-the-house days. I had been cleaning the basement all day, and everything was shining - after that, I went into the garden to help pruning and weeding.

Just around 17.00 when we were finished, we had a short thunderstorm, with as much rain as I've ever seen in such as small period.

As we live at the bottom of a hill, right next to Lake Gentofte, our basement quickly started flooding. Water came up from the sewer...

The folly of the Ombudsman

An interesting case concerning the Danish Ombudsman, Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, and our Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AFR), has been in the media a couple of times lately.

The story of the matter is that there is a certain journalist from one of the Danish tabloid newspapers that the Prime Minister have refused to be interviewed by for years.

Life is not an abstraction

I just saw the critically acclaimed Danish move ‘Drabet’ (Drab is the term for voluntary manslaughter in Danish) by Per Fly, one of our best filmmakers here in Denmark, and it is one of those films that makes you think.

The film revolves around the killing of a Danish police officer by a group of left-wing “activists” – the officer is killed after the three has razed a (fictitious) arms producer

The film contains a scene where one of the characters tries to relativise the killing of the policeman to Iraqi children struck with cancer due to American usage of depleted uranium weapons and