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At the height of their career, Coldplay produced two excellent albums, A rush of blood to the head (2002) and X&Y (2005). As far as I...

Benno Barnard is a leftist Dutch essayist, playwright and poet who has been living in Belgium for thirty-three years now and who has over t...

It's almost September 1st and then the measure announced by the Koninklijk Atheneum , a high school in Antwerp now almost exclusively f...

And if non-muslims think that's over the top and not very conciliatory, you might want to consider the ummah's gazillion of friendly...

Japan , British eighties rock band spearheaded by David Sylvian , a Kent native. Btw, if you ever can, visit Kent. It's the Garden of En...

Everything I wrote until now on this blog about the perils of islamization is small beer. From the website of Filip Dewinter, and if you hav...

Dr. Ulfkotte's map about hotspots in Germany in case of widespread civil unrest, if not civil war. The map, originally too small, was ma...

From the "This Makes My Blood Boil Department". The Dutch site SpitsNieuws had the following tidbit on August 17, 2009 : "IS...

As per usual, I was looking for a studio version but could only find this 1971 Live performance of 'Old Man' by Neil Young. Still, I...

Denmark is basically Jutland , a tongue of land the size of New Jersey "jutting out" from northern Germany, the two big islands Fy...

For once, we changed direction for our yearly holiday, from northwest to due north - so instead of Scotland it was Norway this year. Always ...

From USAToday , August 10 . Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, D-CA: "However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely...

Heart with Magic Man , IIRC from the 1976 album Dreamboat Annie . Someone should glue the first half of the studio recording to the second ...

There are those who call me a bigot because of the relation I perceive between criminality committed by immigrants and their religion, in ca...

A.) THE NETHERLANDS. Dutch daily De Telegraaf , July 19, 2009: "Sexual harassment in swimming pool. RIDDERKERK - Last week police has a...

Steve Miller Band. Serenade. REM. All the way to Reno. Sorry. Very short on time. MFBB.

In July, two more Belgian F-16 fighter bombers joined the four already present on Kandahar Airfield. This means that there are currently six...

OK, Sunday night. Fell asleep on the sofa yesterday night before I could make it to the puter. I actually wanted to post "Step On"...

Our favorite rightwing extremist in the USN, CDRSalamander , linked to a magnificent Thomas Sowell column . Very appropriate nowadays: ...

Belgian band Soulwax , in a later life known as the Flying Dewaele Brothers . Much against everyone's advice , from the 1998 album of th...