Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

More chill in East-West relations (funny sounding term, huh?) as Putin says that Russia will put a moratorium on implementing the Convention...

Not terribly surprising. It was definitely the safest bet, though of course "safe" is not a word one generally uses in connection...

The EU's attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in lin...

Moravcsik has a piece in Newsweek International which I have only skimmed but which, on that basis, I largely agree with. The Europe of 20...

Saw the New Riders of the Purple Sage in town last month and now, through the generosity of Dawg House Audio and Tim Steigler, have a chanc...

Just watched Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee . Despite the overbearing subtitle, it is actually pretty deft in making its case to t...

Via Farls at LGM I read that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has withdrawn the Japanese government's official 1992 apology for at...

edited 20110903 In January 2007, Hanno Bunjes made a post at his now defunct blog at yurk.net describing the joy of discovering some almos...

According to Col. Stuart Herrington . Via Sully.

Henry notes that Putin is pushing back against the OSCE. First, I am less sanguine than Henry about the pure-drivenness of the OSCE's mo...

Finally saw Battle of Algiers last night ... magnificent! It will reward repeated viewing. Of course, the torture and counterinsurgency t...

Thank you, Rob .

"The Music Never Stopped" torrent site (tmnsp.net) has been rebranded as Jerome's Place , likely in anticipation of a less ben...

Six months, long time away. I could never be a real (regular) blogger. Anyway, I am going to try to post occasionally.

Carol Brightman's Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure offers the thesis that Garcia and the Grateful Dead were ...

Tasting, Tasting. https://archive.org/details/gd1966-07-29.sbd.2243.sbeok.shnf