Category: Asides

What do you do with all the grand churches in Europe as the number of religiously inclined people are dwindling? In Maastricht, 13th-century Dominican church has been converted into a bookshop! “Happily, books and churches have always gone together: in the beginning, as St John tells us, was the Word; the word was, in time,…

This is hilarious: “Sure,” I say, “J… can do Australian, American, French and English accents. Sometimes all in the same sentence. Imagine how close the other world leaders will feel to you. Birds of a feather and all that.”

Noam Chomsky eloquently discusses “The Most Wanted List”: “.. they and their apologists regarded Africans much as we do the ants we crush while walking down a street. We are aware that it is likely to happen (if we bother to think about it), but we do not intend to kill them because they are…