Oops, did we forget one?
Speaking of camps…. the Onion, “America’s Finest News Source” ;-), does it again: “U.S. Finally Gets Around To Closing Last WWII Internment Camp. White House Press Secretary Debra Browning reminds reporters that there were 26 other camps that the U.S. successfully closed on time.”
Habeas corpus
Guantanamo Bay has been a black hole for civil liberties, and last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this must change. Finally!
Lhasa de Sela, Travelling
Lhasa de Sela (born 1972), better known as Lhasa, is a true nomad. She was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father of Panamanian-Polish-French-Spanish descent and an American mother of Lebanese-Scottish-Russian-Jewish descent. After being raised in Mexico and the United States, she spent several years in France – she loves Marseille – […]
WALL-E
700 years into the future, mankind has left Earth to live in outer space. But before leaving we built and left behind a robot to clean up after us. WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earthglass, as the advertisement by the (fictional) Buy-n-Large Corporation, the producer of the handy robot, explains. “So sit […]
Maurice Sendak turns 80
Maurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of immortal children’s books, turns 80 today. He finds that children’s experiences in particular—joy and discovery, fear and suffering—are among the purest and strongest ones there are. And children recognize that he is truly talking to them. For me, “Where the Wild Things Are” picked up where “Beauty and the […]
Goodbye Peter Rühmkorf
Peter Rühmkorf (25.10.1929-8.6.2008): Idealist, romantic, left-wing ironist. RIP, great poet. Surfing around the internet I’m stunned: Rühmkorf has not been translated into English?! OK, here goes nothing:
Public viewing
I know that any spectator sport is all about loving and supporting your local team long-term, especially in football (or “soccer”), but I simply can’t get into our local club, 1860.
