Geopolitical Tectonic Movements: Watch the Mediterranean & Beyond
Note: this entry was originally published in February 2015, with ongoing updates and edits since then. Though the daily ebbs and flows of the news cycle may make it seem… Read more »
Category: politics
The Entertainment’s Political Bias
For your entertainment: the Hollywood overwhelming leftist bias in numbers. To be taken with a grain of salt given PoliticalBase’s elusiveness about how it collects the data and where it’s… Read more »
Jeff Bezos, Hero of All Free People
Kudos to Jeff for standing publicly against the French Union of Expensive Books and France’s illiberal laws. He’s reading from the book written by Virgin retail stores kept open on… Read more »
Braindead Brainwashing
I had a whole weekend rant in draft but Movable Type, obviously objecting to my Austrian economics, ate it. I don’t care to write again why and how Italy is… Read more »
We Made It to Chile – A Small Tale of Three Continents
As I hinted this (northern hemisphere) summer, we decided a few months ago to relocate to Chile, the most stable, secure and less corrupt country in Latin America (see for… Read more »
Mundo de Warcraft and Frontline Thoughts About the EU
In this discussion thread many British World of Warcraft players want to be able to migrate their characters to US servers after Blizzard has effectively turned "English" servers into international… Read more »
What Barack Obama’s Popularity Burst Tells Me
The guy delivers a decent speech at the DNC and now he’s all over the place. Isn’t this sudden excitement sign that the Democratic ticket is desperately boring? It’s just… Read more »
A Triumph of Images
Peggy Noonan: "Before that Mr. Kerry did nothing but boring boilerplate–John Edwards "shares American values"–all that vague stuff. What does that mean? It means someone’s focus group said “they like… Read more »
Those Who Don’t Respect Their Enemies Aren’t Better Than Their Opponents
The internet has a funny way to connect the dots. While the unacceptable behavior of a few American soldiers is raising legitimate fury all over the web, I’m reminded of… Read more »