Legal Nonresident Alien: a Scotsman in DC

I am an atheist. Just four little words that, back home in Europe, are not that big a deal. Things are quite different in the USA - atheists...

Regular readers of this blog (I know they exist, Google told me so) may be forgiven for believing that I think everything in the US is terr...

People in the US like to personalise things because your average USian is very exacting and has very specific needs. For instance, in Starbu...

I've been meaning to write about healthcare in the US for a while now. I'm not going to talk about why the European model is far sup...

Alright, folks! Happy new year. That is new YEAR, as in singular. Americans and Canadians both have this annoying habit of saying "New ...

Just when I think I'm getting used to the weird way in which this country works... Dom and I both got emails on Thursday telling us that...

Coming to the end of this Thanksgiving weekend, I wanted to write a quick note on something that I find more than a little disturbing. I...