Mailvox: educated by E

Kody puts on white armor and rides to the rescue of his helpless lady-love: Who the hell do you people think you are. I don’t know much about politics, nor do I. I just wanted to write you and let you know I don’t get you people. What does everybody have against Janeane Garofalo? Why […]

Mailvox: On beauty

Sarah comments: All I meant to say though is that standards for ‘beauty’ are relative…. You see, there is a continuum: Ugly (sorry for not being PC), Unattractive, Plain, Pretty, Beautiful I disagree. While there are fads in beauty, to say that standards are relative is to destroy the concept entirely. I’d no more accept […]

And one more gift

However much it would bother the official Favorite Scottish Neo-pagan of Vox Popoli, I consider this to be a real Christmas present of sorts. Mr. Charles Stross announces that he has finished the first draft of the ninth and final novellette of Accelerando. The novel will be published by Ace in 2005. I will certainly […]

About time

The latest Eurobarometer to be released this week found that just 48 per cent of EU citizens viewed membership as a “good thing”, down from 54 per cent last spring. Britain was by far the most negative state, with positive feelings tumbling to 28 per cent, but even the French were below half for the […]

This is the Left

Erika Riemann was 14 when she was imprisoned by by the communist regime in East Germany. She had defaced a portrait of Stalin hanging in her school by painting a red bow over his moustache with her mother’s lipstick. In three East German prisons, including a former Nazi concentration camp, she was repeatedly raped, starved […]

Nazi revival

Some readers are wondering about my continual hammering on the kinship between the historical National Socialists and their modern descendants – in America, the current Democratic party, in Europe, the European Union. The truth is that Democrats and Eurocrats, while in general ideological agreement with the Nazis, are actually almost identical to the Italian Fascist […]