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POPSBaby P: the evidence grows Labour will close Parliament early and stay on holiday longer. We are in an economic crisis of Gordon Brown's making. A child murdered and it appears easier to have save his life than let it expire, but all we will get is another useless inquiry. If 80 head teachers think that Sharon Shoesmith is doing a good job, then perhaps they too should reflect on their competence?
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POPSDoes the Full Moon Really Make People Crazy? "So if you're feeling a little mischievous tonight, it might be the full moon. Or it might just be the fact that you read some sensationalistic articles about how the full moon affects people's behavior." ;-)
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POPS Dubrovnik - is there a cover up? there is something very smelly about the goings on regarding the finding of a girl's body - in all their eagerness not to leave a stain on tourism, the local authorities (public servants in Croatia ) are exposing their inabilities to cover up - it will be interesting to see what a post mortem in Australia arrives at.
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POPSNature at work... some of these images are enough to make you forget exactly how destructive hurricanes are.
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POPS "Just Call Me Papa Joe".......or Else Lenin, the Tsar's nemesis, was third with nearly 187,000 votes. The top dozen included Peter the Great, Pushkin, Catherine the Great, Yuri Gagarin, Boris Yeltsin and Ivan the Terrible.
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POPSAlexander Solzhenitsyn is Dead He was the greatest witness against the horrors of Stalinism and the system of gulags and slave labor camps in the USSR. Not long after moving to the US, he critiqued the materialism of the west. In the end, he seemed to be something of Tolstoyan theocrat. His book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" had a big impact on me in my youth. His interview with William F. Buckley on the old Firing Line series, if you can find it, is not to be missed.
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POPSRussian Gulag Writer Alexander Solzhenitsen Dies At 89
"His intransigence, his ideals and his long, eventful life make of Solzhenitsyn a storybook figure, heir to Dostoyevsky. He belongs to the pantheon of world history. I pay homage to his memory." Born to a single mother in 1918 at Kislovodsk in the Caucasus amid the bloody aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Solzhenitsyn was initially a loyal Communist. But he went on to undermine the regime's moral foundations, his writings energizing dissent at home and in the West. First though he had to enter the living hell of the Gulag, a vast prison system that stretched from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to the steppes of Kazakhstan. Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the camps in 1945 and was to go on to survive cancer and a KGB assassination attempt. He was released in February 1953, a few weeks before Stalin's death. He spent three more years in internal exile in Kazakhstan, contracted and overcame cancer. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" 1962
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POPSDostoevskij, La Leggenda del Grande Inquisitore La Leggenda del grande Inquisitore è tra i capitoli più belli e pregni di significato che siano mai stati scritti dall'inizio del mondo a oggi. Uno dei capitoli più grandi della letteratura occidentale, per intensità, per contenuto..per tutto..Tratta dell'uomo..della libertà. Della fede.. Ivan narra ad Aljòsa, dal cuore buono e pieno di fede, un racconto da lui inventato.. Gesù torna sulla terra per mostrarsi nuovamente all'uomo..siamo nel periodo dell'inquisizione..la gente lo riconosce ma.. http://www.filosofico.net/ANTOLOGIA_FILE/ANTOLOGIAD/DOSTOEVSKIJ_%20LA%20LEGGENDA%20DEL%20GRA.HTM
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POPSIvan Illich - Deschooling Society Most of what passes for education is merely training Albeit sophisticated training that for the most part serves the interests of those who profit from the status quo
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