HELIOLITH

(English translation to come later below!… I did this for a German class I just dropped in on, and thought I’d post it… )
Wenn Du ein Film sehen möchtest, dass gar keine spannende Handlung vorlegt, und sehr wenige interessante Persönlichkeiten entwickelt, jedoch eine abgelöste Perspektive fördert, und eine beharrliche Gefühl der Melancholie bei […]

I stumbled on this while reading last Thursday’s headlines from the Deutsche-Welle “Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten” The article mentioned that, “Eine Sprecherin bezeichnete den Akt als eklatante Einmischung in die inneren Angelegenheiten des Landes.” or that, “a spokeswoman signaled that the act was blatant meddling in the internal affairs of their country.” Pretty pathetic […]

Josh Marshall sums up my own thoughts quite well on Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.

There are several layers of irony and poetic justice wrapped into this honor. The first is that the greatest step for world peace would simply have been for Gore not to have had the presidency stolen from him in […]

Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff, in a clever retort, asserted that “illegal migrants really degrade the environment” yesterday when his border fence was criticized by environmentalists who are concerned that a fence will disrupt wildlife habitat in southwest U.S. & northern Mexico. I struggle to see how our leaders can support the idea of a fence. […]