File this one under “What are they thinking?”
The German newspaper whose web site really could be better organized reports today that the Foreign Ministry’s internal magazine no longer publishes obituaries for diplomats who, during their lifetime, were members of the Nazi party.
I’m not sure why this is controversial, but apparently the FAZ thinks it is [...]
Just when you thought the Czech Republic had finally turned into a normal, boring European country…
Prague blogger Doug Arellanes has re-capped the Czech PM apartment scandal story thus far, saving me the trouble. (Frankly Arellanes has told the story better than could have.) As he rightly says, the story “is taking on magical-realist tones.” [...]
A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann G?ring the poison he used to commit suicide…. Story.
They say the Troubles are unlikely to return to Northern Ireland. They say the Irish Republican Army doesn?t have the option of returning to war. The IRA has the guns, the IRA has the men, the IRA has the capacity ? but they Just Won?t Do It.
In a post-Sept. 11 world, so the thinking [...]
Upon Reading the First Ninth of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle
It is a Frolick, a Cornucopia of interesting things, a narrative of the discovery of the calculus, scientific feuds, dissection, Religious Dissent, changing fashions in art, the return of comedy to the English stage, computation, coinage, banking and much, much more. One of the Leading Characters, [...]
Zurab Zhvania, the Prime Minister of Georgia, has been found dead in a flat in Tbilisi apparently from gas poisoning. Initial reports suggest that it’s an accident (carbon monoxide poisoning from dodgy heating equipment would be my guess) rather than assassination, but I’ll update with more information as it becomes available.
The Satin Pajamas were a real hoot for me, frankly. Had the 1st Annual European Weblog Awards been submitted to a jury of ?experts,? there?s a general feeling among us Euros in the Fistful that a well-known site like Crooked Timber would have won. And frankly, that would have been boring as hell.
Instead, the [...]
This is interesting. It brings back a lot of memories.
2004’s 20 most viewed entries:
1. Sturm, Drang and Laetitia Casta?s breasts - or - Why France bashing is a feminist issue by Scott Martens
2. Ukranian update by Nick
3. Al Quaida, a Learning Organisation? by Tobias Schwarz
4. Daniel Pipes on Tariq Ramadan: Why French literacy still matters [...]
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