A Cypriot reader of Babel drew my attention to what he considered ‘a big mistake’ in the Greek translation: my claim that Turkish is spoken in Northern Cyprus. ‘There is not a country named North Cyprus,’ he countered. ‘The northern part of the island is occupied and only recognised...
hegemony over the EU. If Germans are uniquely virtuous (by running large budgetary surpluses) then Germany’s hegemony is morally sound. “There is no alternative” (TINA) not only to austerity, but also to German domination of the Continent. European “unity” has taken on a sinister cast...
McCormick in 2022's primary in a successful bid to lift Oz to his primary win. And McCormick, for his part, has told of a private meeting in which he refused Trump's urging to say that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, a disproven claim the former president has never ab...
Neutrality and Evil, following the defeat and escape of Sheltem. In addition, they claim that three lights spilled upward from the depths of the ocean that night and disappeared into the starry sky, hinting that the battle against the mad Guardian would be continued somewhere else in the Spinw...
Dolly Partongot her first big national break when Porter Wagoner cast her on his variety show, but the two had a falling out when she left to pursue a solo career in 1972. In 1980 he sued her for $3 million in damages. The pair settled out of court, and reconciled by the end of ...
Google has gone back and forth about the applications of social media for SEO, but Cutts’ outdated claim that Google’s search algorithm ignores social signals isn’t the final word on the subject. Instead, marketers should broaden their concept of search and SEO to take into account the myr...
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, was very much preoccupied with the notion of a lower-most Sefirah which was perceived by the Kabbalists as female in terms of gender, a notion commonly ref
Like any good marriage, the project he’s been wedded to since July 2012 has been a balance of passion, commitment, creativity and work — lots of work. But, for Justin, polishing the 2 ½ hour documentary series he has edited down from over 200 hours of footage that he shot is ...
These people are undomesticated animals who molest, maul & fiercely savage anyone they can't illegally oppress with fear - you vote them into our parliaments, they appoint their species as other government public officers to control the departments. I've never attacked them but they claim I ...
These people are undomesticated animals who molest, maul & fiercely savage anyone they can't illegally oppress with fear - you vote them into our parliaments, they appoint their species as other government public officers to control the departments. I've never attacked them but they claim I ...