Saturday, August 14, 2010

It looks like Decades of Governmental Astroglide have gotten them Nowhere

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It’s the common market that isn’t. For a large part of European societies, workforce immigration means lower wages, loss of work by fellow ...
Friday, August 13, 2010

They Even Left in the Working Title

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I can't tell. I just can't tell.... is it Filme Noir wierndess, no budget, or a Senior year thesis from the Art School of the Blind...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Recommended Reading

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Page for page, Ian McEwan’s The Innocents is as gripping as anything you’ll find. Set in Berlin during the Cold War, its story revolves ar...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

That’s Okay, they Only use it from Time to Time

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I love the “nothing to see here” reporting. A ceiling in the Supreme Soviet has fallen again . Part of a false ceiling in the Jacques Delo...

Reflecting on the Light Musical Comedy that was Communism

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No, not really. The seminal idea is still struggling to find its egg, but there are new postings up at The Near Distant Ago . I’m still h...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

“I offer him my congratulations as a European”

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Wierdness for it’s own sake does not make it art. Yet another attention-seeking “don’t I just shock you?” type builds an “opera village” i...
Monday, August 09, 2010

From the Literary Treasury of Our Times

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Print is Dead. - Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), 1984, “Ghostbusters”
Sunday, August 08, 2010

Menschenfresser Madness ISO SWF and Crunchy Bits

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A sick(er) twist on disaster tourism saw people pursuing their fascination with cannibalism . Sometimes the situation turns out to be very f...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Amid the Kabuki Theatre of Pity...

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...and the wringing of hands over the nuclear detonation at Hiroshima 65 years ago today is a forgotten lesson - the real lesson: that the ...

Begone Foul Spot!

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I write like Kurt Vonnegut I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software . Analyze your writing! I doth doubt, I must say. (Musn’t one?)...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Can I Redesign the Seats?

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You are what you eat. Then you’ll drive what you et. Crossposted on Marxist Byproducts

Hey, Man, Pass the Album...

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This is the third study of this kind: 2006 , 2008 , 2010. Denmark is number one in each. Blah, blah, blah. Thank you Chamber of Commerc...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Hiroshima, 65 Years Later

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Discussing the means that brought the War in the Pacific to an end: Erik Svane : Unlike the endgames of the majority of wars, World War II...

Better Red than Fed

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At the heart of the Bailadila Hills in central India lie 1.1 billion tons of raw ore so pure and plentiful that half a century after miners ...

70 Years Ago: Recalling the Summer of 1940 (II)

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Le Monde is running a series on the German defeat of the French forces 70 years ago, during the summer of 1940… Histoire(s) de l'été 1...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Carefully Avoiding Attribution

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Obviously, we’re talking about radical Presbyterians here, maybe even birders . Greek terrorist movement Revolutionary Sect has delivered a ...

We could compare this guy to a whinging hairdresser....

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....but that would give whinging hairdressers a bad name : So, the chairman of Ipsa believes every MP who has made a complaint about Ipsa - ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Methinks Someone Feels Spunky

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It’s summertime, and it seems that love is in the air .

Artless Celebrity Theft 101

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Lady Gaga Protests Arizona's SB 1070 Bill After all, she knows where her candy comes from: Lady Gaga Reveals She Does "Cocaine...

An Excess of Ambition for Sarkozy

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…if you think big — and the French and their president, Nicolas Sarkozy , can think grandiose (as in organizing “a new international moneta...