They're the same everywhere it appears...

Berlin Mayor is attacked for being tolerent.

The international leather and fetish scene is meeting for the
second time in Berlin ... Welcome to Berlin

What's wrong with saying that in a greeting to a festivel if you're a major
politician of a leading EU capital city?

However, Mr Wowereit's greeting did not please the conservative
Christian Democrats, who described the mayor's message as "unspeakable".

"Glorifying violence and sadomasochistic excesses is to begin opting out of
society," said Nikolas Zimmer, the Christian Democrats' leader in the Berlin
state legislature.

Posting by email from work; probably not a habit I want to get into, right?

Any Whitesnake fans out there?

No, thought not. If, however, you are a fan, offer to redesign their website for them?
Courtesy of wpts
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Be warned if you're on dial up and haven't got flashblock installed though.

In other, more serious news, boingboing_feed, it's looking like media bias in the Katerina coverage is sinking to a new level; white people taking stuff from grocery stores are "finding food", black people are of course "looting". If in a disaster area and you can't get out, the only source of sustenance you can find is in an abandoned store. Is that really looting?

And draxarpoints out that I linked to the wrong story, above link fixed, the other one indicates that the evacuation plan itself may have been racist and was most certainly neglect to the poor. If true, I don't know which disgusts me more :-(