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LGM Film Club, Part 438: Songs of Earth

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 11, 2024

Margareth Olin is a well-known director in Norway but her films have gotten almost no play in the United States. But her new one has. Songs of Earth is a lovely tribute to the relationship between Olin's parents and the beautiful but unforgiving nature of...

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LGM Film Club, Part 402: When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town

By Erik Loomis

On July 23, 2023

I was all set to continue our 1956 mini-festival today, but then a commenter responded to my post about cruise ships with this New Yorker sponsored documentary on cruise ships.

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Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,275

By Erik Loomis

On January 11, 2023

This is the grave of Henrik Wergeland. Born in 1808 in Kristiansand, Norway, which was then still part of Denmark, Wergeland grew up in the religious and political elite of.

Norwegian Prisons

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 1, 2015

If you are like me, i.e. a good American, you are outraged by those herring choker Norwegians and their prison systems designed to rehabilitate inmates so they can be productive members of society. Real Americans know prison is meant for locking up black people punishing...

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Sweatshop Reality Show

By Erik Loomis

On January 24, 2015

I'm a little torn on this: In an attempt to keep a dialogue going surrounding the sweatshop conditions in which so many mass-produced articles of clothing are made, Norwegian publication.

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Memorials

By Erik Loomis

On March 5, 2014

Jonas Dahlberg's memorial plan for the 2011 massacre of the 77 young people in Oslo and Utoya, Norway is incredibly powerful and moving.

Ambassadors

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 7, 2014

I know that ambassadorships to comfortable nations of low to middling strategic importance have been used to reward friends of presidents for a long time, but it would be nice if the appointees had marginal knowledge of the nation of appointment. Or you know, had...

Robert Farley

On the Exploitation of Mass Murder

By Robert Farley

On July 25, 2011

Jennifer Rubin didn't have such a good weekend. As a general rule, it's pretty easy not to use the murder of ninety-three Norwegians to shill for the defense industry. For.