Politics
Scrub SOPA
The Editorial Board at National Review is thoroughly against SOPA, PIPA and any other lame piece of trash that blocks creativity and censors the end user. I understand that Anonymous wants to make a point by shutting down and attacking websites, this will end up backfiring on them in the end. The reality is that [...]
Argentina takes control of newsprint supplies
Unfortunately, Argentina has a long history with fascism, and an act like this should be called for what it is. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President (and, one would presume, wanna-be dictator of the country), doesn’t like Clarín, a newspaper who has rightfully criticized her shoddy leadership. Her husband, the late Néstor Kirchner, was marginally better [...]
Václav Havel, dissident playwright and former Czech president, dies
There are not too many playwrights who become influential politicians in their later years, but in the case of Václav Havel, he proved to be a very competent one. Even fewer could count among his friends Ronald Reagan and Frank Zappa. Havel passed away on December 18th, 2011. His leadership and his pen will both [...]
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
It is with sadness, though not an unexpected one, to report that one of the greatest polemicists of our day, the ever controversial, every-annoying, utterly brilliant Christopher Hitchens has died. I came into contact with Hitchens’ writing about ten years ago, a bit after 9/11. Before then, I had dismissed him offhand as just another [...]
My Scratchpad
Jan Lievens, Old Man In Oriental Garb, 1628-30
Andy Nogger - Kraan (1974)
The Clash - Bankrobber
Odilon Redon オディロン･ルドン : The eye, like a strange balloon （To Edgar Poe） (via 無為庵の書窓)
Frigga asking a Tree
