Monatsarchive: August 2018

Guardian: A broader problem, though, is the lack of interest that many San Franciscans seem to have in improving the lives of the homeless. Many seem to view this population as a simple inconvenience, such as the tech bro who … Weiterlesen →

Gleb Pavlovsky acidly poked fun at Dugin’s influence over the so-called siloviki – the security men who came to power with Putin: ‘He made a huge impression on people who never read any books.‘ —Charles Clover, Black Wind, White Snow, … Weiterlesen →

Catherine Palace. It’s a beautiful sunny, warm, breezy day. The Catherine Park is gorgeous, and very pleasant to walk about in. As at similar locations the royal outbuildings are opulent mansions in themselves. The line for the tour of the … Weiterlesen →

A great many of the trucks leaving tracks on the Road of Life were American Studebaker 6x6s, shipped across the Atlantic by merchant seamen like my dad.

What one sees here are rows of mass graves, mounds labeled with the years 1941-45, the years of The Great Patriotic War. During the seige of Leningrad over one million Soviet soldiers and over six hundred thousand Soviet civilians died. … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: “Hope is passive,” Moore said about [his new Trump documentary]. “Hope gives you permission to let someone else do the work. Hope leads people to believe that tax returns, or a pee tape, or the FBI or an adult … Weiterlesen →