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Monday April 30, 2007

Metaphysical Tourism


AKA it takes all sorts, or why everyone else thinks Americans are nuts.
Thursday April 26, 2007

Welcome to Pyongyang


Portraits of tourism in North Korea's capital
Monday April 23, 2007
Friday April 20, 2007

'I felt more welcome in the Bible belt'


A Muslim woman goes for a swim in Oxford...
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Common people


The gulf between the middle class and their 'betters' is as wide as ever, apparently.
Monday April 16, 2007
Friday April 13, 2007
Thursday April 12, 2007
Wednesday April 11, 2007
Tuesday April 10, 2007
Tuesday April 03, 2007
Monday April 02, 2007

Schools drop Holocaust lessons


English schools have avoided teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades in history lessons because they are concerned about causing offence to Muslim pupils...

Barbara Ehrenreich on How we learned to stop having fun


Calvinism provided a metaphysical framework for depression: if you felt isolated, persecuted and possibly damned, this was because you actually were