January 2010
12 posts
December 2009
10 posts
No Reason for the Season. →
The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
Measured by the Nation Brands Index (NBI), Obama... →
“Country images are not like public opinion, which can fluctuate literally from day to day. People are reluctant to change their minds about other countries, partly because they don’t think about them very often or very deeply, and partly because countries’ images are deeply ingrained in the culture of the population that holds them. Chinese views of Japan, for example, are...
Mexico City legalizes same-sex marriage, adoptions... →
How is Mexico more progressive on civil rights than California and New York???
True story of matricide behind Werner Herzog's new... →
Interview with Werner Herzog →
what an amazing loon:
“J.W.: I’ve seen you quoted as saying that you’d rather die than see an analyst. Can you elaborate?
W.H.: I think it’s a mistake of the 20th century. You could not live in a house that was illuminated to every last single corner. And human beings become uninhabitable when they are scrutinized and illuminated into their last little dark abysses. Just...
