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Two more relatively good songs from "vaderlandse bodem" (dunno what would be an appropriate translation, fatherlandish soil perhap...

This is just outrageous. OTTAWA - It’s just the thing conservative author, commentator and self-described polemicist Ann Coulter is known f...

Marine Corporal Jonathan D. Porto , 26, of the 1st Battalion/6th Marine Regiment (2nd Marine Division), died on March 14 while supporting co...

Sigh. We all know what this will be about. But where to begin? I think a good way to start would be an interesting overview of 18 Health Car...

With regards to the Belgian ISAF mission in Afghanistan, the Belgian government took an important decision last week in that the duration of...

If one would ask me what song I'd rate quint-essen-tially American, Kansas ' Carry On Wayward Son (1976) would certainly be among t...

I have a post on Spain in the scaffolds and was trying to get one up about the French regional elections, but in the end found out I was too...

Fleetwood Mac. You make loving fun. From the famous 1977 album Rumours . Cycling up a frozen hill between Brakel and Ronse in the middle of ...

One week ago, Hicham El Gaabouri , fleeing from a robbery scene in the Brussels commune of Ukkel with his companion Hassan , tried to carja...

One of these days a husband will carry his wife to her grave, and three children their mother. From the Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws : L...

Rags to Rags from Eels ' debut album Beautiful Freak (1996) was apparently never deemed good enough to qualify for hit, but to me it sou...

A major political event in Europe today, March 4, 2010, were the municipal elections held in The Netherlands. When skimming Anglosaxon websi...

First, the fun part. UKIP MEP Nigel Farage blasts EU President Herman Van Rompuy . Let me make it clear that, even though I share Mr. Van Ro...

Possibly one of the dumbest questions ever brought up by a rock journalist was, when sometime in the nineties a Japanese reporter asked XTC ...

That didn't take long. As anyone who follows the international news even remotely knows, the Dutch Cabinet, a coalition of Christian Dem...

Via Theo Spark : They are backtracking now , but only because there has been stiff opposition from saner minds. The real travesty is of cour...

I am NOT thinking of my retirement, hell no. I hope I will still be working when I'm 70. However, when the day comes I will finally have...

We are actually past the birthday party, since DowneastBlog's very first post came up on February 11, 2003 , but hey, February ain't...

Throughout their career, which lasts to this day, The Cult has very much remained, well, a cult group. A UK postpunk and gothic rock band, ...

Just one article among a bazillion ones. From Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws , February 16, 2010: Translation: "AGRESSIVE FATHER NO L...