About that burning straw goat in Sweden... it's been that way for I-don't-know-how-many years. Every Xmas is the same. The city erects the straw goat. The punks burn it down. Maybe it's a pagan ritual (i.e. the goat is SUPPOSED to be burned each winter) and nobody wants to admit it???
:-S

Americans have Burning Man, the Brits have Guy Fawkes... the Swedes have Giant Burning Straw Goat. Paganism is alive and well. The Paleolithic savages are lurking among us still. Re-read the opening chapter of HEART OF DARKNESS.

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