A month ago at night, while driving up to the hospital, we were listening to Tracy Chapman’s 2002 album Let it Rain to calm nerves. Hard Wired is my favorite song of the CD.
Marilyn Monroe: I’m not interested in..
Marilyn Monroe was a serious reader.
“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
June 1, 1926: Born Norma Jean Mortenson (Baker, her mother’s last name, came later) 87 years ago today, Marilyn Monroe became the iconic blonde. She wasn’t all wiggle and giggle—Monroe was also a serious reader who was often pictured with a book in hand.
01/06/2013 · 15:13
This week’s recommended blogs #2
- Memory (Whittier Strong)
- This is water (Cristian Mihai)
- People with no address: meeting the nomads of Gujarat (The Siracusas)
- In Bologna public schools win against the giants (Struggles in Italy)
- Sharecropping and the convict lease system: “The new slavery in the South” (Kaleido[scopes])
01/06/2013 · 10:00
Und was kommt jetzt?
Der Abstieg der einst stolzen deutschen Sozialdemokratie ist ein Befund der niemandem gleichgültig sein kann, bedroht er doch die Demokratie als Ganzes. Auch ich werde mich in der nächsten Zeit der siechenden Jubilarin ausführlich widmen.
30/05/2013 · 22:06
Czerulf: Is democracy in a crisis? (Part 1 – General considerations)
Voting – essential part of democracy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I came across recently few articles that identified a crisis of democracy. Some commentators argue that democracy is already a thing of the past and that the Chinese model (which combines an authoritarian political structure with a 19th-century-type capitalism) is the way forward. I will discuss here in the following weeks a number of different aspects to this question. I will take Germany as an example. We start off today with some general considerations. Continue reading
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