Monatsarchive: November 2019

We drove through Ludwigshaven and crossed the Rhine on the long, swaying, Ernie Pyle pontoon bridge. From the ruins of Mannheim (dead rotting in the rubble, no civilians on the streets), we turned east, and going uphill, entered beautiful country … Weiterlesen →

A „challenge“ when I was growing up was a task or a competition to prove something, a task one might or might not succeed at. You might fail at the task, you might lose the competition. A challenge was something … Weiterlesen →

taz: Wie am Freitag bekannt wurde, ist der „Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten“ (VVN-BdA) die Gemein­nützig­keit entzogen worden. Der Behörde ist die Vereinigung offenbar zu links.

Martin went up to a British tank which had pulled back with us. „Put a shell in that church steeple,“ he suggested. „The Krauts are using it as an observation post.“ The tank commander shook his head. „I’m sorry, we … Weiterlesen →

No tanks are getting through here.

I began to comprehend that eight or nine neoconservatives who were political outsiders in the Clinton years had essentially overthrown the government of the United States—with ease. It was stunning to realize how fragile our Constitution was. The intellectual leaders … Weiterlesen →

To be honest the eternal flame impresses me as a giant magic marker, lipstick, or vibrator. I don’t like it. I enjoyed talking with the barman about the war (I didn’t tell him my thoughts on the torch). He was … Weiterlesen →

Spiegel: Ein Politiker, der als Popstar wahrgenommen wird. Und ein Popstar, der seine Prominenz in den politischen Raum trägt: Yanis Varoufakis und Brian Eno treten jetzt gemeinsam auf. I received invitations to watch this, have since seen several notices on … Weiterlesen →