Since the previous post I’ve been ruminating on war memorials. I have the impression that they used to fall into two categories: triumphalist and elegiac. The tone of more recent ones, however, seems quite different from either of these. It…
What is halting you is the news itself. The reason so many of these grand progressive blogs are falling apart is that their authors started them with the goal of dissecting the news–of offering a critical perspective on wealthy lies. You gu…
Holger, from Frankfurt, arrives at the Athens airport. Customs official: Name? Holger: Holger von Alteboesefeind. Customs official: Occupation? Holger: Not ziss time. Chust visitingk. A few more elections like the recent ones in Greece, and…
I may have mentioned before that I subscribe to a few email lists dedicated to somewhat out-of-the-way topics. One of these is a list for people interested in the ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures. Of course, in the nature o…
Never had much use for Apple, and even less for Steve Jobs, the guy who made jail seem cool, as Richard Stallman said. So it was with some surprise that I found Apple on the side of the angels, resisting an FBI demand — supported, of course…
Comrades, I thought it was only me who had the displeasure of slugging it with an idiot liberal today but looks like more than a few of us have been going through a similar experience. For me, it all started with that Robert Reich piece tha…
To me, the sight of a cop in his brutish ugly uniform and his panoply of weapons is purely bad. The badness is a composite of fear (I really don’t want to attract his attention) and hate (why is he there at all, and why so heavily armed), a…
That’s a cute idea, but just like the end of the North American genocide, the end result would be a class of wealthy, corrupt Zionists controlling the entire nation, using the “voting rights” and “equal status” of Palestinians as proof–not
When you start cantonizing and ‘destabilizing’ and partitioning — which seems to have been Israel’s grand strategy for quite some time now– people will suffer. Quite a lot. Some of them may even be Christians. I think of Milton’s wonderful
in one of the few examples of rhyme in classical hebrew, aka “the bible,” an orthodox siddur with a KJV ring to its translation uses “rime” for “hoarfrost”, where the phrase is “he scatters dust like hoarfrost”. dust and hoarfrost rhyme in
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