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Brown on the outside, Pink in the middle. Times change. Now we have Colonic Liberals and Social-democrats: transparent-pink on the outside a...

(which is unlikely), here, for the Press Pack, is a brief guide to Hungarian politeness.   and for my many Magyar readers, here are my Maxim...

Rami Kaminski thinks everyone is born an otrovert , but some resist the barrage of cultural conditioning that makes kids 'social' an...

Toads don't have jewels in their heads, nor, ensorcelled, will they go back to being princes if you kiss them, but one species of toad s...

Execution Chamber ,  Nashville, Tennessee.

I must order up a few hundred thousand heavy 'for-life' shopping bags-for life to throw around the countryside and do my little bit ...

since microplastics are everywhere, they are in mammalian testicles .

by Nicola Jennings.  

Tajikistan used to be home to wolves, leopards, tigers, bears and the almost-eliminated gorgeous-eared striped hyena . Hyæna hyæna  

Roman Empire , around 90% of its population lived outside towns and cities, thus leaving few traces in the archæological record. Today, mo...

holding their own in Liège. photo by Martin on FlickR

the printing-press, and about a month later pamphlets such as A true and most horrifying account of how a woman cruelly murdered her four ch...

Rummu, Estonia Mechanical diggers perform a scene during an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet where heavy goods vehicles and cars...

that has probably cost thousands of dollars and, seemingly beheaded, is flaunted as Beauty to millions of crawlers.

...that Donetsk in Ukraine was, in the bad old days re-named Stalino , just as Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd ) was re-named Stalingrad . [I am l...

America is where they resurrect as vampires.

by The President of the United States. "I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in th...

'A nation without religion is like a man without breath.' ~ Josef Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, German...

known as a Mound Spring , in (usually dry) Kati-Thanda (Lake Eyre), Australia.

Selfie on a Good Day. Selfie on a Bad Day.

The best-documented outrage in history.   photo by Abdelrahman Alkahlou t

The sexualisation of affection and the romancing of lust; factory farming and mass extinction.

Hechi, China.  

to create a blog consisting only of details of famous pictures. Here is a detail of a begging-bowl from one of the first masterpieces I ever...

Today's temperatures. I live in the purple zone. I have a headache.

9 Tishrei. There is no atonement. Except suicide.

I remember that there was a book of songs kept in the Piano Stool in the Front Room (along with the scores of Chopin Nocturnes)  which inclu...

 

crashing against the glass. It explored the edges, and seemed to search for an opening and then went straight at the panes of glass in a ser...

Warsaw 1940. Warsaw 1945. Gaza 2025.

Astronomers have identified what could be the biggest  black hole  known in the universe, estimated to be around 36 billion times more massi...

'My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US ?’   Where would you go ?  Finland is too c...

won 600 glasses of absinthe in a double or quits game of billiards.  But he didn't claim them.* He estimated that they were worth 90 fra...

 Since 1945  the world’s nine declared nuclear-armed states have amassed a firepower equivalent to 145,000 Hiroshima bombs – enough to destr...

and is the title of Goethe’s famous play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil....

  Rubus fruticosus & Parthenocissus quinquefolia

How things seem is not so much how they are than how we seem to ourselves, flatteringly or not. How they are is no more than partly-knowable...

Too conscious of too much Too conscious of too much consciousness To be too conscious Doesn't mean too conscientious  But could mean too...

is listed as an accidental species of African bird in Spain. It may already be naturalised. I know how your feel, dear, even without a red r...

"is best told as a story of organised crime." Dr Luke Kemp

the contemporary view that [human] life of any kind no matter how restricted and feeble is better than no life at all. The thing doesn't...

I love maps. I love 'eccentric' maps. Wondering about the borders of the Hungarian Empire before 1914, I found that it stretched fro...

to deal with suffering is to imagine worse." ~ Tahar ben Jelloun, The Blinding Absence of Light.

American English is full of Yiddish terms, just as American foreign policy is  full of Israeli leadership, i.e. by the nose.  This morning I...

TECHNO-SOLUTIONISM.

 Reading : the most refined of addictions. ' Escape into a good book ' is usually cheaper than a spliff or a substance, especially i...

They're coming to live in hotels. They're coming to take our jobs. They're coming to rape our daughters. But I doubt if they...

It is not nearly so pleasurable to receive an e-mail from Empuriabrave as a postcard from Posterholt.

who declared that he passed from adolescence to senility with no intervening maturity and whose songs, he said, spread like herpes . 

 ...so that lies could be told."  – Mary Ellen Pleasant. If  “perception is controlled hallucination” morality is imposed insanity.