Maybe the day is not so far off when we can choose whether March goes out like a lion or like a lamb. Physicists in Toulouse, after an edifying battery of experiments with a high-powered laser beam (ion cannon) in the desert of Mexico, have demonstrated that they can redirect and guide, if not also trigger, a lightning bolt away from intended, Thor-chosen, target.
Saturday 31 March 2012
thunderstump or paratonnerre
catagories: ๐ซ๐ท, ๐ช️, ๐ก, environment
Thursday 29 March 2012
toxicity or mabel, black-label
The intangibles from the States are acquiring that flavour as well, including best-practices that have seen that same conduct go international. Elections too have become more a vote on personalities rather than platforms and the unseating process has become likewise prying, and fillers—tricks, short-cuts, hacks—have started to infiltrate German consumption as well. None here would tolerate anything toxic or questionable in their food yet, but the alimentary-hack of Aroma, essence and Ersatz is taking on. It's all very unpalatable and I worry for those under the tyranny of apparent and abundant choice.
catagories: environment, health and medicine, technology and innovation
Wednesday 28 March 2012
collectors' edition or canting-arms
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐ซ๐ท, economic policy
interstitial or variety show
Tuesday 27 March 2012
cordon sanitaire or the moon of endor
While Poland was hosting the new German president on his first official state visit, to reaffirm the ties of the two neighbouring countries, Poland was declared, again, the unwilling football of dรฉtente and appeasement. I am sure a great deal of diplomacy is carried out in the footlights, in hushed tones and without attendant-minders, like this Cold War melodrama. Certainly, there is an element of smug fatalism, but it seems as if old rivalries are drawing the same lines in the sand and perhaps the same promises written on water. Starting with the rise of Bolshevik governments out of the chaos of World War I, America sought to staunch the spread of the Communist revolution, but it was not until the victors picked over the wreckage of the World War II, that the US policy of containment became such a formalized game.
catagories: ⚛️, ๐จ๐ฟ, ๐ต๐ฑ, ๐ท๐บ, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, foreign policy, revolution, Star Wars
Monday 26 March 2012
รถsterlichen brauchtum or thanks easter bunny, bock, bock!
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, holidays and observances, lifestyle, religion