Dead dogs and dentists

Here’s a Sefardic tale, originally from Meam Loez, and included in Pascual Pascual Recuero’s Antología de cuentos sefardíes: A holy man and his scholars are out walking when they pass a dead dog that smells terrible. His scholars say to him: –Man, get a whiff of that! He replies: –Ah, but look how white its…

Denmark

It has been suggested that I post a Danish flag on this page. Unfortunately I don’t do flags, but this page is already pretty red-and-white and there’s a decapitated me floating top-right to demonstrate my sympathies. Some have succumbed, however.

True origins of Goebbels’ “total war” slogan

Like all other biographies of Joseph Goebbels, Das Goebbels Experiment, seen the other night at the Filmoteca, dates the “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?” (“Do you want total war?”) call to the February 1943 Sport Palace speech/Sportpalastrede. Here is the truth, as told me by a Dutch bass player: It is not generally known that…

True origins of Goebbels' "total war" slogan

Like all other biographies of Joseph Goebbels, Das Goebbels Experiment, seen the other night at the Filmoteca, dates the “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?” (“Do you want total war?”) call to the February 1943 Sport Palace speech/Sportpalastrede. Here is the truth, as told me by a Dutch bass player: It is not generally known that…

Well I never

One for conspiracy theorists: the body of this story about hidden costs for net firms in China is itself hidden at this moment.

Rejection is hard

Neither has the Jyllands-Posten published any of the letters I have (not, actually) sent it. Christoffer Zieler is a loser and Ahmed Akkari is a moron. I could do with a coffee.