Copenhagen - Stockholm - Turku - Helsinki - Copenhagen

More on this later...

Actually, perhaps now is the time to list my travels from start to finish in an intimidating way:

Liberty, MO - New Haven - Boston - Inuvik, NWT, Canada - Woods Hole - Copenhagen - Stockholm - Turku - Helsinki - Copenhagen - Tuscon - Windsor - Tampa - New Haven...

Denmark much?

"People like Steinbrenner are also an antidote to — if I can be pseudo-intellectual for a second (and if I can’t who can?) — Tocqueville’s great fear. The Great Frenchman had many nice things to say about the culture of democracy, but he was plagued by the sense that democratic culture would be gentle, mild and mediocre. It would seduce people with its pleasantness into giving up strong passions and grand ambitions."

Ross Douthat

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/opinion/12douthat.html?src=me&ref=general

Snippets

"So do Danish bartenders serve the same purpose as American ones? I mean, do you guys like talk to people when they're lonely and isolated?"

"What? I can't hear you"

Also just saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said Fuck Israel.

Sights

Just saw an old woman around 60 or so styled out like hell with shades in a bag dress on a scooter. She must be operating on a higher level of irony than we Americans could possibly comprehend.