The Imperial City And The World
"Once upon a time* . . . a frightened people created a new machine. They made this machine to feel safe. You see, just before, while they were sleeping, bad things came creeping in the night. One even bit many people and took them away. The … [Continue reading]
________________________ Un homme: Est-ce que nous sommes fou? Autre homme: Oh, mais la philosophie de Condi est plus intéressante que la philosophie existentialiste Obama et les 300! Ils veulent défaite! Nous serons là pour mille ans! … [Continue reading]
How to make fun of Obama (in an apparently sanctioned, 2008-sensibility sort of way)? As we all know, comedy, whether from Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, Colbert, or even the late-to-the-party Leno, is a powerful political tool. Humor helps measure and … [Continue reading]
New York Crisis reveals real center of American power. Interesting, no - even as juxtaposition. Although, like Shanghai, we too have always felt NYC was far more important to Amerikuh than the city built on a swamp. So when the City faces a full … [Continue reading]
Curmudgeon that we are, we watched the tech and mainstream (drive-by, per El Rushbo?) media's gyrations over the Apple new doohickey with great bemusement. By all accounts, the iPhone 2.0 is an incremental improvement over its last over priced … [Continue reading]