Monatsarchive: Oktober 2018

The young MP came over, holstered automatic on hip, to inquire what it was I was doing approaching the base entrance, and was unsatisfied with my suggestion that I’d just turn around and be on my way. I ended up … Weiterlesen →

What, exactly, is said about the faith of the people of this land is not clarified. The scene at the Hill of Crosses reminded me very much of Medjugorje – a road lined with cars, tables full of cheap religious … Weiterlesen →

The tallest church in Lithuania is to tall churches as Podgorica’s Niagara Falls of Montenegro is to waterfalls. I had a pleasant visit, and enjoyed the ambiance with small groups of others out on a bright, cool, breezy autumn afternoon. … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: An Israel court has ordered two New Zealand women to pay damages for harming the “artistic welfare” of three Israeli teenagers after the pop star Lorde cancelled a planned performance in Tel Aviv. Judge Mirit Fohrer ruled that Justine Sachs and … Weiterlesen →

I am amazed that it is only at this very late date I’ve learned Stalin was the first editor of Pravda. (Plokhy, Yalta, London: Penguin, 2010, 57). I’d always thought of him as an untutored Georgian cobbler’s son, and, given … Weiterlesen →