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Fly like an eagle . Steve Miller Band . From the 1976 album of the same name, which was their best selling ever. I try to present a balanced...

Frahan , a little village in Belgium's deep south, perched on the flank of a crest around which the Semois river meanders. It's one...

Hooray!!! Hooray!!! Hooray!!! Abortion is now possible in Portugal!!! Well, okay. It's been made far more easy back in 2007 already, aft...

About one week ago, regular reader, if not regular commenter Larry, linked to what I think is an amazing essay by the Iranian-born American ...

First, Nirvana with "In Bloom" . We write 1992. It is the fourth and final single to be drawn from Nevermind . Only recently did ...

Heavy riots the last few days in some five Brussels muslim-dominated neighborhoods. Even heavier unrest is expected this weekend since it is...

From the Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws , 15 September 2009 : "Imam Nordine Taouil is an extremist muslim." This bold statement ...

It took me a long time to take this decision. And even now, since I still consider myself merely a guestwriter - ever since Kerry D. invited...

Last week, regular reader Spiral, who I shall forever remember as Mark from Colorado, linked to an article by the WSJ's Peter Ferrara. ...

Being a European, and preocuupied with rather pressing issues in our neck of the wood, it apparently took me some time to grasp the ever inc...

Salad was a nineties UK indie group composed of Marijne Van Der Vlugt (vocals), Pete Brown (bass), Rob Wakeman (drums), and Paul Kennedy (g...

Tara and John Creamer met at college, where he was captain of the football team, and she never missed a game. "Her life, in her eyes, w...

Very quick post. It's the 500th anniversary of John Calvin , a protestant reformer second only to Martin Luther. He was born Jean Cauvin...

Respect. Two more Dutch soldiers fell in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for The Netherlands to 21 in that theatre. On Sunday, Septembe...

A BNP video, via Vlad Tepes' blog : ... The bloodless genocide and ethnic cleansing of the British people and culture continues apace wi...

While much of Flanders, Belgium's northern region, is rather boringly flat, there's some regions were a modest relief lends the land...

Losing a whole year , a 1997 subhit from Third Eye Blind , from their titleless debut album. After listening to their CD, I thought these gu...

I reported earlier about the commotion around the headscarf ban imposed by an Antwerp High School, the Koninklijk Atheneum. Since Tuesday, S...

In late August, 1939, under the suspect pretense of an amiable courtesy visit, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein dropped anchor in th...

"... Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the Lon...