To this day, you can still find people in northern parts of the UAE and in Oman with distinctly Iberian features. Locals often say they are the descendants of Portuguese sailors and warriors who reached these shores in the 16th century and mixed with the local population!
Looking forward to your take on the Ned Flanders vote. Probably a reluctant Trump voter but he could surprise us. I suspect at least one of his sons, Rod and Todd, would be an outspoken "Exvangelical" New Atheist in the early 2000s but perhaps becoming woke later.
It is depressing but fascinating how many people on the left don't notice that their parties and movements are full of people screaming about the Jews.
Enjoy Dubai! Don't spend all your time in fancy New Dubai. See the Creek and the souks of Bur Dubai and Deira. Use the metro to get around. But likewise don't ignore New Dubai either. Fascinating place. Claimed a decade of my life.
The Simpsons political examination was both enjoyable and not surprising. The one caveat I have is that the story is set in a small middle America town, which I expect would nudge all the characters more reliably to the right except perhaps Lisa Simpson. But probably the most astute observation was the transformation of Homer from a dimwit who still tries to do the right thing sooner or later to a blunt caricature. Though I haven't seen an episode in 20 years, it's what I've still picked up.
The World of Yesterday and the Radetzky March are beautiful memorials to the Hapsburg Empire. I enjoyed Yaroslav Hrytsak’s Ukraine: the Forging of a Nation, but I thought his claims for Ukraine's literature, as if comparable to Russia's, completely mad.
I can’t recall exactly what he said on the subject, but I have to admit being pretty ignorant of Ukraine’s literature, whereas Russians feature strong among the very greatest in the canon.
When the war started, Steve Sailer noted that Wikipedia was now calling Gogol a "Ukrainian" writer, though of course he wrote in Russian, lived in Moscow, and is considered by Russians to be one of them.
It's perfectly understandable that some Ukrainians would want to claim him. We Irish do the same thing with Oscar Wilde, even though he spent his adult life in England and on the continent, and his works are all set in England. (Apart from Salomé, of course, which is set in ... Palestine? Israel? Roman Judea? It's all so complicated!)
Re: This is why subsidised public transport and road pricing are both good things.
Add to that: Lenient work from home policies. Here is St Pete Florida we are at the height of tourist and spring break season, with traffic to match. Yet Mondays, when many people can work from home, are the one relatively OK day for traffic.
Yourself excepted I think will solfiac is the best writer around on uk politics, that article is a great example of why he’s so good
he’s great
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To this day, you can still find people in northern parts of the UAE and in Oman with distinctly Iberian features. Locals often say they are the descendants of Portuguese sailors and warriors who reached these shores in the 16th century and mixed with the local population!
" ... it does point to a future where the older parties are being outflanked."
This has also happened in the U.S. The parties have kept their names and their vibes while their policies have shifted or even transmogrified.
Looking forward to your take on the Ned Flanders vote. Probably a reluctant Trump voter but he could surprise us. I suspect at least one of his sons, Rod and Todd, would be an outspoken "Exvangelical" New Atheist in the early 2000s but perhaps becoming woke later.
It is depressing but fascinating how many people on the left don't notice that their parties and movements are full of people screaming about the Jews.
Enjoy Dubai! Don't spend all your time in fancy New Dubai. See the Creek and the souks of Bur Dubai and Deira. Use the metro to get around. But likewise don't ignore New Dubai either. Fascinating place. Claimed a decade of my life.
The Simpsons political examination was both enjoyable and not surprising. The one caveat I have is that the story is set in a small middle America town, which I expect would nudge all the characters more reliably to the right except perhaps Lisa Simpson. But probably the most astute observation was the transformation of Homer from a dimwit who still tries to do the right thing sooner or later to a blunt caricature. Though I haven't seen an episode in 20 years, it's what I've still picked up.
The World of Yesterday and the Radetzky March are beautiful memorials to the Hapsburg Empire. I enjoyed Yaroslav Hrytsak’s Ukraine: the Forging of a Nation, but I thought his claims for Ukraine's literature, as if comparable to Russia's, completely mad.
I can’t recall exactly what he said on the subject, but I have to admit being pretty ignorant of Ukraine’s literature, whereas Russians feature strong among the very greatest in the canon.
When the war started, Steve Sailer noted that Wikipedia was now calling Gogol a "Ukrainian" writer, though of course he wrote in Russian, lived in Moscow, and is considered by Russians to be one of them.
It's perfectly understandable that some Ukrainians would want to claim him. We Irish do the same thing with Oscar Wilde, even though he spent his adult life in England and on the continent, and his works are all set in England. (Apart from Salomé, of course, which is set in ... Palestine? Israel? Roman Judea? It's all so complicated!)
Re: This is why subsidised public transport and road pricing are both good things.
Add to that: Lenient work from home policies. Here is St Pete Florida we are at the height of tourist and spring break season, with traffic to match. Yet Mondays, when many people can work from home, are the one relatively OK day for traffic.