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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young . And of course, it's... ... Our house. 1970. Blink with Happy Day . Guys are from Ireland. It's 199...

With so much going on in the world today, it was easy to miss the rant delivered by Turkey's ambassador to Austria a couple of weeks ago...

Richard Wagner worked intermittently on his famous opera Parsifal , from its first conception in 1857 to its final draft in 1877. The opera ...

It is crystal clear that the 'prime' Belgian newspaper, De Standaard The Belgian journal De Standaard seems rather sympathetic towa...

Via The Telegraph , in my opinion the best UK journal: I am currently reading David Halberstam 's The Coldest Winter , on the origins of...

Tom Petty, without the Heartbreakers, in 1994 with You wreck me , from the album Wildflowers . Because a.) I am SUCH a nice, deeply caring p...

It is now official, Outlaw Mike just participated in his very first Thanksgiving Dinner. Blurred but atmospheric snapshot of people helping ...

Via Dutch website GeenStijl , infosheets from an Amnesty International Report (from time to time, AI does something good still) on stoning i...

From the You GOT To Be Kidding Me Department: Syrian refuses to obey female police officer. "Syrian ignores female agent's orders S...

Mulu with Pussycat . From the album Smiles like a shark , 1997. Singer's Laura Campbell . Porno for Pyros . 100 Ways . I know, Perry Fa...

Regular reader and commenter Joanne linked to this appalling story of the burning alive of a Coptic man at the hands of muslim thugs in Egy...

Via Theo Spark . Dennis Prager explains a sixty-year old problem in a nutshell. In this, like in every other Middle Eastern conflict, the re...

Largely unknown outside The Netherlands is the city of Gouda , home of famous cheeses. The outside world - at least in the blogosphere - has...

Nada Surf . Popular . The only hit drawn from their debut album High/Low . It's 1996. Bwahahahaaaaaaa!!!! Hilarious lyrics!!!! Nada Sur...

Belgian top political blogger Luc Van Braekel had an excellent post up last week about a "multicultural conference" organised by m...

Armistice Day , November 11, is of course, as you should teach your children, meant to commemmorate the end of hostilities in the First Worl...

These days, no man, not even Mark Steyn, is more qualified than Pat Condell to deliver a damning indictment of the travesty that's going...

From The Daily Mail Online, 9 November 2010: "...A Muslim religious channel that allowed presenters to condone marital rape and call wo...

A lesser known and not very commercial number on Billy Joel 's The Nylon Curtain album from 1982. Scandinavian Skies . Kind of a concep...

Thank you Traveller for da pic. MFBB.