Sunday 28 November 2010
circuit breaker or move along, nothing to see here
CH O2 or my name is hunt hunter
catagories: antiques, lifestyle, transportation, travel
Friday 26 November 2010
theory and practice
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, antiques, holidays and observances
another brick in the wall or please don't feed the tigers
Columnist Laurie Penny of the New Statesman sends a dispatch from the latest round of student protests in England against tuition rate hikes. This anger follows demonstrations in Germany and many other European countries where budgetary shortfalls, real or imagined, and austerity measures, imposed or voluntary, have undermined the ideal and priority of the equitable promotion of a literate society. This is something worth fighting for and the students' efforts from Dublin to London to Paris to Bamberg and all points beyond and in between are valiant and should not go unnoticed or unheeded.
catagories: ๐, ๐, revolution
Wednesday 24 November 2010
cornucopia
catagories: ๐งถ, holidays and observances, language, networking and blogging
Sunday 21 November 2010
allons-y, alonso
catagories: ๐ฌ, ๐, networking and blogging
Saturday 20 November 2010
beyond thunderdome
Der Spiegel, via thelocal, reports on a tip from a would-be defector that warns of a Mumbai-style terror attack on the German Reichstag to be carried out in the Spring. Since when is kicking it Bombay style a way to talk about stratagems, as if it were comparable to ร la russe or Stockholm Syndrome, because as dreadfully effective and tragic as it was for the city of Mumbai, storming Parliament and running amok is on a different level. It is just tacky shorthand.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ฌ, foreign policy