I have resisted the temptation to comment on the recent election in the UK in any major way so far as I have the feeling that I could not really make an informed comment on proceedings anyway. In my mind, I tend to draw parallels to the current German political landscape, which might well not be totally fair on the Brits. The Lib Dems seem to have ( Read more... )

...there is some kind of discrepancy between these two news stories, isn't there?

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

and

US advance deployment of "Bunker Buster" bombI know that this is probably just an unfortunate coincidence, but still ( Read more... )

A short documentary on the Amen Break , quite possibly the most widely utilised drum loop in modern electronic music. Chances are you will have heard it before lots of times ( Read more... )

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/26/controversial.cartoon/index.html

(CNN) -- Two leading Jewish watchdog groups are denouncing a prominent cartoonist's illustration about Israel's offensive in Gaza, saying it uses anti-Semitic imagery ( Read more... )

..weil ihm die Darstellung seines Werdegangs nicht gefällt.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,590643,00.html

Wahrscheinlich geht es um diese Passage:

"Im Oktober 2005 enthüllte Der Spiegel die von Heilmann bislang verschwiegene Stasi-Vergangenheit. ( Read more... )

but why should I, seeing that you clearly don't have a brain?
Yeah, that's right, first you reenact Pasolini's "Salo" and when these people decide that their only way out is hanging themselves, all of the sudden, it's an act of warfare.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5068606.stm

Oh, hang on! No, I have changed my mind, I agree: These ( Read more... )