czech republic

Move over Wonket dreamboat Rosa DeLauro, because we have a new favorite politician who is punk as fuck. No, sillies. NOT that sad Romney face tattoo guy, he is sad and NOT AWESOME. No, this Czech artist/dramaturge/lawyer/professor OF RADNESS, Vladimir Franz, who is running for Czech president. Mssr. Franz, for the love of art and [...]

One of the things we all loved about Communism in theory was that it was going to provide, like, a radical alternative to everything about how our economy works, man. But in practice communist countries generally work a lot like capitalist countries, but with less toilet paper, and with money with pictures of ghastly brutalist [...]

We were listening to our pal Doug Arellanes deejaying in the early hours of Saturday, from Radio 1 in Prague, and then somehow we figured he should file a dispatch regarding What’s His Name, the Muslim president, and his visit to the Czech Republic to talk to some out-of-work politicians about ending nuclear bombs or [...]

Barack Obama went to this little country, the Czech Republic! Wonkette’s correspondent Rob McLean is there, and spent many hours in an actual castle in Prague, where the Wizard lives, waiting for the famous guest from the United States to appear. “Some very disrespectful Czech girls behind me are complaining about the American flag wavers [...]

The Czech government collapsed, which means current prime minister — and current president of the European Union, whoops! — Mirek Topolanek is now powerless and will soon be jobless, but that doesn’t mean he can’t deliver an apocalyptically Slavic-ly gloomy sermon against the United States and its terrible bailout plan, which is just like the [...]

Yesterday, John McCain made a gaffe that no one cared about: he referred to the Czech Republic as “Czechoslovakia,” which is actually correct, but only if you think time froze in 1992. Does John McCain think this? Because today, for the second day in a row, he referred to that same country as “Czechoslovakia.” It [...]

ONCE A COUNTRY ALWAYS A COUNTRY  3:27 pm July 14, 2008

by Jim Newell

OHHHH WALNUTS!: Foreign Policy expert John McCain told reporters at a press avail today that he was concerned about “a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days,” including “reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.” And this is why we must bomb Persia and its shifty-eyed Sultan. [Think Progress]

He may be the underdog here at home, but he’s winning hearts and minds in the land of delicious beer. Hat tip to reader bitchincamaro. [Prague Post]

REMAINDERS  10:18 pm May 23, 2006

Remainders: Too Drunk To Fuck?

by dlat


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