Ok, I'm being vaguely political...

[wispfox]

Both links from kightp.

Anti-Bush poetry gets schoolgirl in trouble, costs teacher his job.

analysis of current foreign policy by The Independent Weekly's Hal Crowther

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

Sweden!

You'll get by perfectly fine in English, and might even have troubles learning the language, 'cause the natives will all want to try out their mighty English skillz on you.

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

sweden would be wonderful, but i'm looking for a place that has temperate winters...

i actually know a chunk of swedish. my teacher told me that the government will pay you to take swedish classes until you're decently fluent, if you're going there as a citizen. sounds decent to me. just...cold!

[thette.livejournal.com]

(I'm from the far north of Sweden, where the climate resembles Chicago's quite close, so I might not be perfectly unbiased here.)

You could always try the southernmost provinces, such as Scania, where it almost never snows.

Also, the Swedish for immigrant classes are not all that good, since there's no prior division, which means that PhDs knowing four languages take the same class as analphabetic farmers...

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

i wondered, when i saw your icon. you look swedish.

hmmmm...scania. i must consider this. is the government as useful and organized as i've been told?

[thette.livejournal.com]

Well, let me just say that all the votes (except the late post votes) are counted on the voting day.

We also know the name and number of every person legally in the country. (Though we don't have to have ID cards.)

Anything in particular you want to know?

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

*grin* votes being counted. oh good.

can't think of anything right now that isn't long and involved. methinks it might be time to do some serious research, though.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Statistics Sweden (http://www.scb.se/).

The national tax board (http://www.skatteverket.se/).

The government offices (http://www.sweden.gov.se/).

Last but not least, our official webiste (http://www.sweden.se/).