Posted by: Jayw3 on Tue May 6, 2008

There’s been much speculation that John McCain will announce Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal as his running mate. But who is Bobby Jindal? Roman Catholic Christian, convert from Hinduism, Louisiana Republican, social conservative, first Indian-American governor, Rhodes Scholar, and... Something more? Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal is many things.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Wed Mar 19, 2008

Despite warnings by Dusan Batakovic, the Serbian ambassador to Canada, that it set a “dangerous precedent” that would be used by Quebec to declare its own unilateral independence, the Canadian government this week recognized the former Serbian state of Kosovo as an independent nation.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

When the Greek Embassy in Ireland sends an e-mail to a Macedonia political party declaring that "you are gays, you need bashing," and a honey-thieving bear who dislikes turbo-folk is tried in absentia while he's on the lam, you wonder why the Balkans are called "the powder keg of Europe" and not "the Enchanted Forest Animal Academy."