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Recent Posts

• The phenomenal photography of Iason Athanasiadis
• In Yiddish: “Living like God in Odessa”
• “Fucking do it Erdoğan” — Right on Bobby! Totally with you…
• Yikes! A challenge to my loyalties: Tsitsipas beats Djoković in Shanghai
• Another idiot: Orhan Pamuk: we have to accept democracy even if people vote to abolish it
• Erdoğan: no wonder they adore him
• “Why this gift to Turkey would simultaneously be a gift to Russia?”
• Byz on dhimmis in Istanbul
• The Queen Mother m*l*k* — at a Beatles concert
• Finally, a picture of Clara Lemlich
• From the Forward — yes, it’s still published — Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness
• P.S. The Beatles
• Yo, #MeToos! You forgot to shame the Beatles
• A reader writes: “Wonderful work on your blog” – Tarlabaşı series
• Kol Nidre
• Litvaks and Galizianers II
• Byz says
• Times: “Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say”
• After: “Always comes round to giving Turkey whatever-t-f it wants, no matter what”…two old posts
• Fintan O’Toole: “The Irish border is a matter of life and death, not technology”
• Wow! Someone dares at least a couple of paragraphs of truth on Croatia — I can barely believe it
• Check it out: Croats not on this list of victims
• PETA needs to do something about that Brooks Bros logo
• Always comes round to giving Turkey whatever-t-f it wants, no matter what
• Times: This is heartbreaking and maddening — India and unending partition
• Oscar Wilde: “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”
• “The Balkans in Rightwing Mythology” — Read the article (past the touching Srebrenica graphic); it’s not about the “Balkans” in Rightwing Mythology; it’s — AGAIN — only about SERBIA in rightwing mythology
• Hilarious! Only our Spaniards! What a pleasure to be able to talk about pigs and fat again!
• Bonnie Greer on Ireland
• October 4th: San Francesco d’Assisi — Francisco de Zurbarán
• Sweet Panjabi MC video
• Guardian: Dubai deaths
• Bosnian Woods: Edelman and the 90s in Bosnia
• Byzantine Ambassador: Whhooooohhh… Tell it brother
• Moscow subway
• Ara Güler photo exhibit opens in New York — (Thanks to S. for the tip!)
• “Grammarly does more than catch errors…”, it makes up adverbs.
• Times: Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice.
• Yikes — I just got twenty Croatian hits in an hour — and dunno why
• A reader writes: Cyclades
• Ok… Thank yous to A. — pointing out my major embarrassment bad — Williamson & Warren — well, Happy New Year at least…
• Alison Miner, a reader, writes: the cosmopolitan and snark, and Maryanne Williamson
• P.S. Dixie Chicks and the Border
• Time Out’s cities: Astoria! and…Kypsele? No Pera propaganda, brother Turks of mine :( — and Belgrade…
• Jadde endorses Marianne Williamson: in her most concise and smooth speech yet…
• Happy Birthday
• Image: Portrait of an artist…Abul Hasan
• The Navratri “diet”
• Saudi: Bre haydi go f*ck yourselves
• From Guardian: first communion in Naples