Slowly catching up with Belgium!

A handy guide.

as revealed in science fiction.

(In 1922.)

Interview with the writer.

Stupid populist pandering.

Former Soviet dissidents speak out for Leyla Yunus.

Satire, of course. (An MEP in Brussels on Sunday??)

A defector tells all.

...as the ice melts...

"a song of self-negating regret performed and choreographed as a statement of total confidence."

"As we finally landed at New York, a huge problem presented itself — I didn't want to leave the plane."

Serious problems brought to light by congressional scrutiny.

Quite possibly.

Eugie's last story, published the day before she died.

"Serve with mashed potato, if you serve it at all."

Excellent.

Combien de sous sont ces saucissons-ci? Ces saucissons-ci sont six sous.

Neil Gaiman explains.

Remember 1988?

Consciousness-raising on the East River.

I shall be mining this for rhetorical nuggets.

Are the rich serious?

Yay medieval legends!

Received wisdom punctured by first-hand evidence!

Only if you want to taste it.

It’s almost as if basing a community around people who hate other people and don’t want to have to pay for any services that don’t directly and concretely benefit themselves is inherently unstable. Who would have thought?

The state slipping slowly into the sea.

Boeing or SpaceX?

Probably not Vodaphone.