Monthly Archives: July 2025

You know, “beyond parody” is a phrase which is easy to throw around, and you often think it applies, but all those times you thought you knew what “beyond parody” meant were before you saw this. 🙂

Guardian:

One of the paradoxes of religious history in Eastern Europe is that paganism lasted so long there, yet we know so little about it. There is no Slavic equivalent to the great compendium of Norse myth preserved in the Icelandic … Continue reading →

Guardian: A man has been arrested in Glasgow for holding a paper sign allegedly supportive of the proscribed direct action group Palestine Action, the third arrest of its kind across the city in the past week. Police Scotland confirmed that … Continue reading →

Frankly, I don’t think that political awareness is going to prove the best medicine for our current malady. Most people know that financial dictatorship is destroying their life; the problem is knowing what to do about it. It is possible … Continue reading →

I poke my head into what remains of the American and German peace movements every once in a while, and it’s always disappointing. For years the heads at demonstrations have been a sea of balding pates, white and gray (not … Continue reading →

This is less than a minute of video. The man speaking is the President of the United States. It’s really beyond words. People use this phrase “beyond words” rhetorically, but here, for me, I mean it quite literally. Now English … Continue reading →