Monthly Archives: January 2016

Quotable: Will Rogers on trickle-down economics

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Shocking revelation: Venezuelan National Assembly guards are former DIGEPOL torturers!

There are a few letters missing from this particular game of Scrabble. D-I-G-E-P-O-L, to be precise. And A-D. And H-E-N-R-Y R-A-M-O-S A-L-L-U-P. But who’s counting? Ah, Venezuela. Land of terror, where an evil, dictatorial socialist government has abolished the old … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: The night belongs to King B

Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to his good friend, David Bowie…who, as he did with so many young artists just starting out, supported him and was a fan long before the rest of the world had apparently heard of him. Ziggy … Continue reading

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Wankers of the Week: They could be Zeroes…

Crappy weekend, everyone! Mang, what a week from Hades it’s been. First we lose David Bowie, then Alan Rickman, then René Angélil, and then the dude who played Grizzly Adams, all to the same shitcrapfucking disease. Yeah, fuck YOU, cancer. … Continue reading

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Quotable: Alan Rickman on feminism

Just one reason among a great many that I already sorely miss this man. He got it. So long, Alan, and thank you for being simply splendid.

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The kernel of Köln: another good analysis

Women demonstrate against sexism and racism at a flash-mob rally in Köln, Germany. (Photo: Reuters) A few days ago, I found this piece by Margarete Stokowski on the Spiegel website. It doesn’t appear there in English (some other columnists do), … Continue reading

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Ashes to ashes, funk to funky…

I got a rumor from Ground Control…oh no, don’t say it’s true: Sadly, it IS true. David Bowie is gone. And he has left us a final space oddity to remember him by in the form of his last album, … Continue reading

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Police break up PEGIDA demo in Köln; counterdemo draws thousands

Video (actually, an outtake from a much longer RT video, by an unrelated YouTuber; the hysterical captioning leads me to believe that it was a PEGIDA sympathizer) of police in Köln breaking up yesterday’s PEGIDA demonstration after hooligans in their … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: We’ll see how brave you are…

…and all your dollies have friends.

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New Year’s assaults in Köln: A different local view, and a challenge

Via a post by Hanna Dahlberg on the Störenfriedas blog, I found this wonderful Facebook status by a resident of Köln. Regina Schleheck was also at the main train station in the city that night, and also surrounded by a … Continue reading

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