28 May 2012

Pointless video post – ‘Low’ by Testament

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Low is a fairly unappreciated album in the Testament library, often eclipsed by the much better-acclaimed (among my thrash metalhead ac...
27 May 2012

Rather says it all, doesn’t it?

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Photo courtesy the Daily Mail Purple Library Guy over at Peace, Order and Good Government, Eh? has this to ask:  how did that Libya ...
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25 May 2012

‘Three cheers for the [Ultramontanist] abolitionist Pope!’

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One of nineteenth-century Rome’s greatest minds, was Pope Gregory XVI. From the 1832 encyclical Mirari Vos : This shameful font of in...
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24 May 2012

Boris Malagurski’s The Weight of Chains

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Though Twelfth Night may indeed have been a comedy, in modern history the fate of the Southern Slavs in whose homeland Shakespeare’s come...
23 May 2012

Postmodernism, irony and the ontology of violence

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I seem to be engaging more and more with Sam Crane’s Useless Tree these days, in a fairly critical fashion; though it is absolutely a compl...
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21 May 2012

War shrines, Uyghur separatists, poison scarves and douchebags

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  The excellent quasi-new China blog Rectified.name has an interesting post (also here on Batur’s Autonomous Region ) on Uyghur multi-...
17 May 2012

Confucius, Chinese culture, the CCP and Eric X Li

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Sam Crane has an interesting post in response to a recent HuffPo op-ed piece by Shanghai venture capitalist Eric X Li which touches on a n...