Hari’s comment about the Louvre got me thinking a little bit about museums, about what they display, about what we conisider valuable for public knowledge. I like to disagree with Hari as much as I can, but in this case, he seems pretty close to right. Why do we go on continuing to worship [...]

If you are registered at the forum of this site, you receive a weekly newsletter named after my favorite biscuit, the digestive. A few people have asked me if there is really such a thing so I decided to put a picture up. I used to eat about three packages of these things a day [...]

This is what I just wrote over in the forum about Naomi Klein’s article, Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility. Please don’t leave any comments here on the blog - instead go over to the forum and let’s get a discussion going on a topic that has a lot of people - me included - [...]

This past week an old high school classmate came into my work - “Miracles Cafe” a small independent seaside coffeehouse - and asked me the inevitable:
“So … what are you up to these days?” She said it with such cheerfulness that it was obvious it wasn’t a question at all. It was a statement. I [...]

Hello all once again. My quasi-weekly updates continue. At the moment I am sitting in an air-conditioned internet cafe in Aurangbad, the central hubs for visiting the caves of Ellora and Ajanta. It is important to note the room is air-conditioned because it is well over 100 degrees in the city, magnified by the pollution [...]

Laura found a photo of us on the internet from while we were in Torreon. I have no recollection of it at all, but she says there are these guys who go around to all the clubs taking photos of everyone and then putting them up on the website. I guess they do the [...]

In my morning readover of the NY Times I came across and Op-Ed piece by Donald Rumsfeld entitled, “The Price of Freedom in Iraq.” (copied below) I prepared myself to be overcome with nausea and started reading.
And then I was surprised. Donald Rumsfeld - the incarnation of the devil himself - made quite a few [...]

There is absolutely nothing better than good-natured, nationalistic, super-patriotic shit talking when it comes to soccer.
This is probably the greatest shit talking blog dialogue I have ever seen.
I anxiously await to see how Maurizio will respond.

You can now visit the Louvre without leaving your computer. Quicktime player required.

Thanks to Raman for pointing out this Rumsfeld clip from moveon.org.