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In Russia, they have always been crazy times." "In fact, the disposal of vast numbers of human beings is just about the only dynam...

(Not to mention perpetually-burning coal-seam fires .)

offers the opportunity for more art than urge – simultaneously.

So we are fed into the feeder. Human history's Follow the leader .

  photo by Shane Gross

  Is anyone surprised ?  Most fashion and cosmetics companies have fascistic leanings: Chanel, L'Oréal, Belenciaga, Vuitton, Dior, Boss ...

A mosque in Gaza.

are insanely anti-intellectual except when intellect produces dumb domination ever more effectual.

 

I see no mystery in The Trial . Joseph K's crime was to be human.

Pelicot said of Dogan’s appeal:   "I think it is indecent." The trial continues. Gisèle Pelicot, a brave woman known too much , sh...

Sending postcards is so passé, old hat, vieux-jeu... So I was thrilled to get a card today out of the blue, so to say, with pictures of ...

This is not why I read The Guardian every day.

You might surf for hours under the heading ' Dejeuner sur l'herbe with naked men' but, amongst the hackneyed reproductions of th...

On the planet of the blind Artificial Intelligence is King.

in the Atacama Desert, Chile.  photo by Lucas Aguayo  

  does not necessarily include the USA , but now must include Ukraine, the Baltics and the Balkans.

If only I could have found a Cause worth blowing myself up for I would have joined it years ago.  More for contumely than applause.

Excuse me, but there is neither right side nor bright side of history. It is all wrong. And there is no "redemption", either.

 

It's no surprise that the world's chief supplier and consumer of pornography is the world's chief supplier and consumer of cadav...

 Egos are quite small.

 I used to have some symptoms of the one (especially continual fatigue and depression) with bouts of energetic ataraxia; now I have symptoms...

reflect our views on life. My first hero was Theseus because (for some deep, impenetrable reason) I was fascinated by his encounter with Pro...

might be in the past. If Kali forbid! I were to be reborn I would like to return as a sterile spermatozoon of a happy, hairy man.

is based on the assertion that idle dreaming leads to subversion.

by Frankie Boyle ( Meantime  2022, page 130) Moon, the cloudy white eye of a disinterested universe.

of Western culture revealed itself i n the vapid, culturally-restricted and almost totalitarian "counter-culture" which it accommo...

 - Michel de Montaigne.

so 'exercised' about sex, when its Saviour was probably asexual ?  

 "Most of the world's problems come from the fact that stupid people talk louder." - Frankie Boyle, Meantime (2022)

' Bayer (Germany) and Corteva (US) control  80 per  cent of patents for genetically modified seeds.' What do they care about people...

is having a bad hair day. Polka-dot Batfish by Matthew Sullivan  

The most popular music for British funerals is Eric Idle's  Always look on the bright side of life. When all's said and done, say no...

prophets are unsubtle except when being gnomic. Their followers interpret them subtly, or selectively, which leads to schism and rank hypocr...

that he'd rather share a bed with a dog than a human. I would probably have agreed, without making a choice between man or woman, betwee...

We consumers should not be blamed for what we consume, but only for consuming.

is not the same as being addicted to social grooming.

with a diplomatic event when it begins with a photo of the guest of honour standing next to a child sex trafficker being projected on to Win...

In fiction you know what people are thinking. In fact, you do not.

(and Schopenhauer agreed) that any immortality would be hell. Diogenes in Dijon.  

There have been in Russo-Greek Christian 'Orthodoxy' self-styled, often uncouth Fools for Christ . But none like Diogenes who has be...

I see another one has "ghosted" me which happens quite regularly when I encounter members of the actual bourgeoisie.

in England. "Jack-in-the-Green"

Worth more than a Himalaya of sugar. Mark Zuckerberg

 A country that presents itself falsely is not to be trusted. (Well, no country, except perhaps San Marino can be trusted) The United Kingdo...

I have been re-reading Peter Carey's splendid satire  Oscar and Lucinda which I first read in 1989 or 1990.  I remembered the cover, the...

The poet-philosopher Jalaludin Rumi suggested that I should think of Being as Workshop. But, having been a fatherless technophobe, workshops...

Time out of mind Time out of mud Mind out of blood Yet mud is so kind