Legal Nonresident Alien: a Scotsman in DC

As you know, I'm a Scot with one red-haired allele (thanks, mum), so my melanocortin-1 receptors function poorly compared to wildtypes...

Hey folks, this post will be in a slightly different style to my usual ramblings, because I have something to moan about that does not revol...

Hello, regular readers*, and sorry for the long silence. I've been busy with work, which seems rather appropriate given what I'm goi...

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...