Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy

9/16/2010

Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50 …

Russian Drought / Pakistan Floods / Atlantic Hurricanes

9/13/2010

As the old song goes, the foot-bone is connected to the ankle-bone, the ankle-bone is connected to the shin-bone, the …

9/13/2010

With a man this ignorant [Michael O’Leary] heading up an airline I wouldn’t feel safe in his aircraft. In an …

9/11/2010

While we’re waiting for the huge catastrophe that will finally focus the attention of two-thirds of the world’s population on …

9/3/2010

Imre Kertész is the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for fiction. Damn! Another well known and serious writer not …