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Monthly Archives: April 2008
On the impatient subway riders who revolted by leaving a stranded train and causing more problems for Chicago public transportation officials.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.”
On a German prosecutor charging an admitted Nazi hit man in 3 murders
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
“The one certain note of the German character under stress, is its unfailing beastliness and its use of certain well known forms of perversion and degenergy.”
Source: Kipling by Jad Adams
Petraeus Calls for Troop Withdrawal Halt
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
“Love and Death once ceased their strife
At the Tavern of Man’s Life.
Called for wine, and threw — alas! –
Each his quiver on the grass.
When the bout was o’er they found
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
Hastily they gathered then
Each the loves and lives of men.
Ah, the fateful dawn deceived!
Mingled arrows each one sheaved;
Death’s dread armoury was stored
With [...]