CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Does your child enjoy dominoes? Does your child enjoy trucks? Does he or she like to see trucks move? Do they like to see the trucks poop out little dominoes? Do you know your kids? At all? Do you know that they'll play with this for like five minutes and then eat the dominoes?
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
It looks like the dominoes in the 2010 election are beginning to fall anyway. Despite U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's announcement that she will not resign until after the March primary, other candidates have not been deterred from running for...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
WE should have readily-available TV coverage of golf, football, Olympics and youth sports – and no other silly minority games such as cricket, rugby, darts, bowls and domin
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The dominoes begin to fall - by Richard... Sunday, November 15, 2009We said that Tom Wise was not the only one. Next in line is Mike Natrass, fingered by Daniel Foggo in today's Sunday Times.There are reasons why an increasing number of people will not touch UKIP with a barge pole, and they are beginning to emerge. Behind Natrass are many more, men (largely) who have been running the party as
The Exploding Kinetoscope (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Preamble The end of a decade comes but once every ten years! Arbitrary and traditional as Top Ten lists are, the division of history’s ebb and flow into ten-year cycles is even more pervasive and less meaningful. What we collectively imagine as The Sixties or The Eighties are no such thing. History does not wait for round numbers. Nonetheless, here we are. 2000 through 2009. Historians form a...
Black Marble Blog Server (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It’s becoming a tradition that every time I attend a conference or travel anywhere interesting I post at least a couple of places to eat. Perhaps ironically, none of the places I am about to post about serve cuisine that you could reasonable call German. It’s true – we’ve done coffee and cake – that well known German tradition. In an evening, however, besides our hotel...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Kate Moss celebrated her brother's 30th birthday in style on Wednesday. The supermodel was joined by a host of celebrity pals - including her rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince and singer Lily Allen - at London's The Dome venue in Tufnell Park to help make sports agent Nick's landmark birthday a special occasion. A source told BANG Showbiz: "Kate looked like she was having a great night hanging out...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
"Why the Crisis Isn't Going Away" by Mike Whitney "Size matters. And it particularly matters when the size of the financial system grossly exceeds the productive capacity of the underlying economy. Then problems arise. Surplus capital flows into paper assets triggering a boom. Then speculators pile in, driving asset prices higher. Margins grow, debts balloon, and bubbles emerge. The...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Marek Mikunda's Krakow Post article provides a worthwhile take on what happened to Poland after the collapse of Communism, on Poland's role and on Poland's development. Exactly 20 years ago from today, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down. The celebrations marking this anniversary today in Berlin will be boisterous. They will be attended by the cream of the crop of European leaders, including...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of the wall in Berlin night a genuinely, even an unexpectedly moving affair. The organisers, presumably guided by Angela Merkel, got almost every accent right. Freedom, Europe and the wider world...
Black Marble Blog Server (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Monday night saw the official celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the historic events which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and paved the way for German reunification. Sadly, the night was cold and wet – the rain was falling in torrents as we made our way to Potsdamer Platz and walked towards the Brandenburg Gate. We managed to stand right next to one of the large screens on which proceedings...
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
By Nicholas Stix Twenty years ago , East German border guards permitted young East and West Germans to destroy the Berlin Wall. The fall of the “Die Mauer,” simply “the wall,” as every German speaker on either side of it referred to it, announced that the 20th century’s most aggressive, most murderous, imperialist power, the Soviet Empire, was dying, and that East Bloc...
Pho's Akron Pages (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In 1984 I was on a study abroad program in Yugoslavia. One night we met up with some German students and sampled a great deal of the local malt beverage and got talking about politics. I (clumsily) brought up the idea of reunification and they shrugged it off. A pipe dream, they said. Maybe in our lifetimes, but there's no sign of even a glimmer of possibility. Five years later, and twenty years ago...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
World leaders, dignitaries and thousands of visitors are in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time to remember the past and celebrate the November day in 1989 that changed the future.
The Dignified Rant (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Twenty years ago in this season, the cracks in the Berlin Wall spread throughout the Soviet empire and into the Soviet Union itself.First the Warsaw Pact crumbled and exited the Soviet system and then the USSR broke apart, in as fine an example of the "discredited" domino theory as you'll ever find.Which is why I always offer those events as supporting evidence that our stand in South Vietnam...
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