Tom Wolfe wins the Literary Review’s Bad Sex award.
Some of my best friends are incurable romantics
My friend Daryl Elfield is in the news.
Will Davies at Harvard
Will Davies writes about a discussion he ran at the current Internet and Society conference. Top line – pure capitalism and pure democracy can’t mix, even if compromise is messy.
Welcome to the new journalism
So, here I am, blogging about Christian Crumlish, who’s blogging about mitten, who’s blogging about Cathy Siepp, who’s (allegedly) blogged (apparently) attacking mitten.
Clear?
Viva el Presidente!
Activist attorney seeks governorship
Russian liberals – come to sunny Kiev!
An article in the New Republic yesterday describes the “orange envy” of Russian liberals, seeing their Ukrainian counterparts protesting on the streets.
New horizons
25% of workers want to quit their jobs in 2005. Which makes me think, what about the other 75%? Link
The Ramayana in pictures
A comic book retelling of the Hindu sacred text.
Books on Ukraine
If anyone is interested in reading more about Ukraine, in the light of what is going on there, my picks are Borderland, by Anna Reid, for fact; and Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, for fiction.