Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Friday, July 12, 2013

UK refuses etc

UK refuses Litvinenko death public inquiry: coroner... following an application by the British foreign ministry to keep it secret.

unrelated: US Accuses Russia of Giving Snowden ‘Propaganda Platform’ - возмутительно! нужно послать авианосную группу в Москву-реку. ну или какой там флот по счету.

в городе Сочи



Сочи, 1938

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

naive coarseness

...naive coarseness is the source of that absolutely complacent inability [of Professor Hans Delbriick] to understand the obligation to distinguish between personal considerations and the truthful analysis of facts.

- Max Weber as quoted in The Ordeal of Civility (John Murray Cuddihy)