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Mid-Day Briefs: The Crushing Blows Continue
• Hungary's national football team crushed Malta on Saturday 4-0, meaning we still have an outside chance to qualify for next year's World Cup finals. Oh, and by "football" we mean football, not the thing Americans play with their hands. [reuters]
• Hungary's main opposition party Fidesz continues to crush the current Socialist-led government in the polls, meaning the nuts have a more than outside chance to win next year's general election. Oh, and by "nuts" we mean populists. [angus reid]
• Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, realizing that his populist opponents are cleaning his clock, called populism the "true enemy of democratic center." And by "populism" he means nuts.
• The Hungarian government offered help to the USA in rescuing hurricane survivors. One Hungarian citizen is still missing. [fn]
• A columnist for a newspaper in Massachusetts says some Hungarians told her mom that all Americans are racist, and then used this to argue that all Americans except her (and presumably her mom) are racist. The Gypsies could not be reached for comment. [MetroWest Daily News]
• A Taiwanese company will start making deluxe flat-screen teevees in Hungary, leaving us wondering how you say "factory outlet store" in Chinese. [forbes]
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