Recent blog posts by Michael Schaffer and Hendrik Herzberg nicely characterise the feeling of futility provoked by trying to track and understand all of the variables involved in the ongoing US election. It is very difficult to get a sense both of political events, and of the media and popular reactions to those events. [...]
The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
Hannah Strange, “Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter”, in Times Online, 16 September 2008.
“And face it—McCain and Weaver were [...]
Paul Doyle, “Chelsea’s potency uninterrupted by limp Bordeaux”, in The Guardian, 17 September 2008.
In 1677, the most unpopular law of the old customary code was finally abolished in France. Congrès was defined by the Frutière dictionary as: “the practice of coitus ordered by decree of an ecclesiastical judge, performed in the presence of surgeons and [...]
There are many useless ways to idle away time on the internet. And then there is this.
Among those Americans who care enough about politics to have registered themselves with The Democratic Party and intend to vote in the upcoming Democratic primary elections, 7 percent think that Barack Obama is a Muslim (CBS Poll). I find it very difficult to interpret this sort of information. In particular, I am curious how [...]
I was lucky enough to come by the last ticket to the last performance of the Peter Weiss play Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade—or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum [...]