nourishing obscurity

Think back to Quantum of Solace and why it was not as good.  For me, the biggest problem, aside from the short length – 90 minutes is simply not long enough for a Bond film – was the lack of romance with the leading lady and frankly, that whatshername was a bore. This is what [...]

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The League for Very Nice versions commends:

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More than just a pretty face? Like Argentina, like all “democracies” today? Argentina was fatally wounded almost ten years ago and Argentina as I knew it died yesterday, October 23, 2011, when Ms. Kirchner was re-elected with over 50% of the votes, gaining complete control of the country. She now controls the executive of course, [...]

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At first I thought this was a spoof but it appears they’re deadly serious: A new Icelandic airline which will offer flights to “fine destinations at a reasonable price” as of spring 2012 will be called WOW Air and will be open for bookings “in the coming days,” as its website, which is under construction, [...]

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Dearieme will return tomorrow. http://youtu.be/QWekKdoVOeo

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Great post by James Delingpole: This is not a joke, it’s not funny and it’s not new. Anyone who reads this blog has been aware of this inescapable truth for some time. They’ll have read (back in March 2010) about the research by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain [...]

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All goals day? This is a new series into which I’ll dip from time to time, showing photos in the collection which speak to me in some way or have some particular point of interest to them. I hope they speak to you as well. Make sure to click to zoom.

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Is it better to be the one who loves … or the one who is loved? Is it better to be alone?

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The global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that may ignite social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) hopes has warned. It will never get back here whilst: #  all those incompetent parachutees are in place; #  the tax system is still so iniquitous; #  councils are allowed their [...]

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An international group of online hackers [H/T Chuckles] is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate’s associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates’ businesses. The vow is a bizarre [...]

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The Forbidden Book (Ooms), Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) encapsulated this brave new metanarrative thus: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This tutelage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and [...]

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