It's ten years on the day today and media is totally steeped in their self-obsession with it. Personally, I must shamefully admit that my main feeling is mostly a "it's been ten years already?" Time goes WAY too fast ( Read more... )

Because the headline caught my eye by succeeding in having that humourous cynical wit I so love.

Call me a liberal, a leftist, or even an anti-capitalist if you want - for once I don't mind -, but this doesn't really has anything to do with any of that; my total approval of this editorial is entirely based on - what do they call it - oh yes, ( Read more... )

Cycling is my new favourite sport in the olympics, and no, I don't care very much for the actual sport, but last Sunday when I happened to catch it on TV I noticed that it provided some nice footage of the northeast Chinese landscape. A landscape that looks pretty nice in all its lush, mountainous and semi-exotic style. So that's why I now favours ( Read more... )

One of the sites in my bookmark list for my global news sweeps is the Mainichi Daily News one. But it must have been a while since I last was there, because I hadn't spotted their big "Forgive us" splash page until today. It seems like they have had quite a stir-up over "inappropriate content" and "bad journalistic behaviour" over there, something ( Read more... )

I found myself actually watching all of the pope's funeral yesterday, even though I only had planned to have a glimpse of it now and then. After all, it was an very special event. One of those few moments when you actually can feel history being written. And not being very well-oriented in roman-catholic rites, I found it to be interesting from a ( Read more... )

Watched the news again. I'm currently a newsaholic, partially due to the fact that I take every opportunity to not trying to write the things I'm supposed to do (because it's so boooring), and partially because of my near-unhealthy fascination for provisions regarding political successions. And let's face it, few acts of succession are as ( Read more... )