Sovok of the Week

Almost daily, terrorists are capturing hostages in Iraq, mutilating and beheading their bodies. The US is preparing to re-elect its incompetent leader and his cohort of corrupt accomplices. At the same time, John Kerry in cahoots with his better-looking and more charismatic running mate are still trying to find their voice and their slogan, some [...]

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Here is a gripping tale of sorrow and misfortune that will touch the heart of
even the most callous reader.

Last month, August the 13th 2004 fell on Friday thus threatening well-being
of countless Sovoks around the globe who were sure that doom, gloom, and
pestilence
[...]

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Poor Romania…. So close to the beautiful beaches of Bulgaria and yet hampered by an unintelligible language that resembles retarded French or some sort of mongoloid Italian. Romania, you could have been like us. You could have been slavic… But in one aspect, the Romanians are just as sovok as Russians, [...]

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Everyone from the Soviet Union knows that Ukrainians love watermelons. It’s like knowing that Georgians are sleazy and that Kazakhs will knife their mother to save a ruble at the rynok. You just instinctively know these things, and you assume that they are universals. When I first came to the U.S., I [...]

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On one hot August day, as I was riding in a service taxi through the island of Cyprus from Limassol to Larnaca, an idea came to me to try to jot down a list of things that one may find in a place that is unmistakably Third World. Not that my travels in Cyprus pushed [...]

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Several weeks ago, as I was cashing in a gift certificate at the outfit by the name "Panera Bread", I noticed a sign advertising free Internet access for customers. Aside from the fact that it is rather strange that an establishment specializing in soups and baked goods would anticipate throngs of Wall Street types toting [...]

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, gave a stirring speech to the delegates of the Republican Convention in New York City last week, thrilling his audience with tales of how he witnessed state socialism first hand as a young boy in Austria. Little Arnold was scarred also, it seems, by the terrifying sight of [...]

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Who could have thought that sitting butt-naked in a sauna, where the heat routinely
reaches 110 degrees Celsius (230 degrees Fahrenheit), could earn you accolades
and a prestigious title?!

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