December 2010
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“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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Feminism in modern Japan
it would seem a far more interesting subject for first of all a woman, and second of all a feminist. However perversion and rape seem more appealing. Fascinating.
Tennyson - The Kraken (1830)
Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides: above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering...
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A spirit is haunting the mullahs
A nationwide strike by workers and managers of the state-owned Wheat Agency may threaten the country with a bread shortage. The agency controls virtually all of the country’s silos and distributes wheat to thousands of privately owned bakers. Workers’ action is also reported from the Haft-Tapeh sugar-cane industry, the steel-pipe company in Ahvaz and the petrochemical complex in...
Dutch history test in the morning, tonight christmas eve with my love.
