Author: Sirocco

So let’s see if I have this right. According to the world’s most powerful man, the below is a picture of murdered children: Embryonic stem cell research at UWI, Madison…while this is not: Incinerated children...

[Throws down blogpost printouts which he has been reading. Excitedly combs his steel wool-like hair with his fingers; pounds the table with his fists; lets off brisk volleys of unsanctified language at brief intervals,...

The foreign press keeps writing nice things about my medieval hometown, Bergen on Norway’s west coast, and the tourists are milling around downtown in the glorious weather. So I decided to pick up a camera and pretend to...

Crossposted from my blog. Since there is a five-minutes recess in the threat-making against Iran, the fulminating fascist John Bolton gets off by threatening the United Nations, FOX News reports:[US ambassador to the UN John]...

If Western humanism has a preeminent advocate of the ages, it is Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1456–1536). His Adagia (1515), a collection of proverbs with commentary, is the first bestseller in history. And its most...