I’ve caught lots of grief from friends, both in Prague and in the States, about my twitter (Don’t know what Twitter is? Where have you been living? Sorry for the sarcasm, here’s an explanation.) habit over the last year or so. It’s actually been pretty entertaining at times. I’ve been “defrieneded” [...]
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islamophobia in czech?
Posted By zharrod on September 13th, 2008
Really? Is there? I didn’t know this was actually happening here in Czech. According to an article, Czech Muslims complaining about Islamophobia, from the Czech News Agency some would say it does exist. If you have, the time to read the whole article you will see that there is much debate [...]
where’s their daddies?
Posted By zharrod on September 13th, 2008
Over the last year or so, I’ve posted several times on the frighteningly low birth rates in Europe and here in Czech (click here for pasts). This week I read another interesting article, One third of Czech children now born out of wedlock, that threw another layer on top of this discussion - where’s [...]
sorry we are full…
Posted By zharrod on July 11th, 2008
I’ve mentioned my concern about the ridiculously low birth rates throughout Europe before, especially in relationship to the high birth rates of immigrants here. Well it would seem that in Czech we are having somewhat of a baby boom. One of the things I’ve noticed since moving back, 10 months, ago was the [...]
post-christian europe, birth rates, and radical islam…
Posted By zharrod on May 26th, 2008
This weekend I was bouncing around on the web, and read some blogs that I don’t hit as regularly and I stumbled upon, Why (Many) Europeans Refuse to Reproduce over at Justin Taylor’s blog. Taylor links to Uncommon Knowledge, with Peter Robinson, (of National Review Online) and a series of clips from a [...]
happy easter! - vesely velikonoce!
Posted By zharrod on March 23rd, 2008
Easter is here and I am celebrating in the midst of a full weekend of football, and etc. but I’ve also enjoyed a 5 day weekend off from school and learning Czech that I am on the end of. However, there are some traditions that others are anticipating as Easter, or Velikonoce (Roughly translated [...]
birth rate in europe on the rise?
Posted By zharrod on August 24th, 2007
My mother, took a huge step of faith and went to Africa on a medical mission trip recently and on her way through Amsterdam she picked up a copy of the USA Today and saved it for me because of an article on the front page entitled Euro-babies go from bust to boom. It [...]
