Skyline has changed so radically in only the few years I’ve been away. A lot of people hate those new super-narrow skyscrapers. I think they’re cool:
Photo: Naples, 2017
25 NovProvenance and location unkown. Thought it might be the Certosa di San Martino in Vomero, but that’s not a functioning monastery. Who knows? Naples is a strangely middle-eastern city in some ways; there are always secret interiors that there are no exterior clues to. On the other hand, the claustrophobia of the tightly packed and built city often leads to a great deal of domestic life taking place in the street.
Slavoj Žižek: Why white liberals love identity politics
25 NovWorth it for the Jewish joke at top.
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Turkey pardon p.s.: Lisa Montgomery
25 NovTrump pardons his turkey, but is pushing to have Lisa Montgomery executed before he leaves to show his base he’s tough…on the mentally ill.
LMFAO, ha ha ha ha! just rolling on the floor here.
Courtesy photo—Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery
Sister Helen Prejean@helenprejean Lisa Montgomery was dealt a losing hand from before her birth and now Trump is trying to trump that terrible hand with an execution in these last days of his presidency. 3:35 AM · Nov 10, 2020·Twitter Web App
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Presidential turkey pardon: when does this completely tasteless tradition stop?
25 NovThe ha-ha in this is based on the unfunny truth that the United States is the only somewhat advanced country that still practices barbaric capital punishment. Is that funny?
I can’t believe more people don’t find it revolting.
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Francis Bacon
25 Nov“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.” – Francis Bacon
Photo: Hagioi Douloi, Corfu
24 NovCorfu is such a depressing rebuke to the ugliness of most other Greek οικίσμοι, urban or rural. Who would look at this photograph and not think Italy or southern France first? Or, who doesn’t go to Corfu and at some point ask himself: “Hmmm… What if all Greek lands had been Venetian colonies for four hundred years instead of Ottoman?”
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal 