The Catholics want their parties back from the nationalists in Berga. Speaking as a sun-worshipper, I want to know where they got them in the first place.
Apparently Por un puñado de besos is almost as bad as the last Nicole Kidman thing, but that’s no reason why we shouldn’t all pay for it. Wait: isn’t filling halls with fake consumers in order to obtain greater prizes how political rallies work?
Colin really needs to haul down the flag on his less/fewer mission. It’s not like he hasn’t got enough other things to complain about, what with the weather they’ve been having. I hope on the other hand that the herd will come to realise that it is not true that the “Chinese man [was] killed…
Portraits in profile are for Ancient Egyptians. As Master of the Universe, I was talking the other day to the giraffe from Madagascar about flea circuses. He wants one, but said that using real fleas was cruel. Wait, said his cat, I represent the true animal kingdom, and I think they deserve it. Yeah, said…
My thought is that George Galloway supported the ayatollahs but balanced that in this splendid rant, while I guess in Brian Souter’s vision the good/bad labelling is reversed on the scales. For the record, Philip of Bourbon spoke French, Charles of Habsburg spoke German, both had multilingual armies, and – though hispanophile – neither patronised…
The London Magazine, 1734: Verses occasioned by Mr. Budgel’s modest Proposal, in the Daily Post-Boy of Aug. 31. to give the Publick a new and accurate Translation of a late celebrated French Treatise, on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Romans, and which has been already translated. Dulness, good goddess, chanc’d to…
The Vocabulaire européen des philosophies has now been versioned in English as Dictionary of untranslatables and Spanish as Diccionario de intraducibles. Here Mark Liberman cites Adam Gopnik, who seems to think the book is self-refuting Sapir-Whorfism, and here Jacques Lezra, coordinator of the English-language version, seems to be indulging the following incoherence: linguistic relativism is…
