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Saturday, May 8. 2010

Europe the Model? No way.

Gremlins - evil gremlins - kept our site down all day today. This is good, from Bergner at Weekly Standard: Europe Is No Model - The genius of American politics.


No regular American would want to be anything like Europe, however much we like to visit them to try to experience their interesting and colorful history, and to hear their quaint accents and languages. The real Disney Europe is what I call it. A receding, suicidal civilization. The charm comes from their having been frozen in time by insane governments - not from their present condition.


Go see it before it disappears and becomes a subject for anthropological study.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, Politics at 16:48 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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OT, but - the only reason I still look over the NY Times website is that the Sunday magazine sometimes has really good articles - not obviously marred by ideology.

This is one of those weeks - a cover story on the innate moral senses of babies:

The Moral Life of Babies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html?ref=magazine
#1 Ben David on 2010-05-09 03:49 (Reply)
Contrary to belief and despite the best efforts of suicidal socialist England at least will be here for quite a while yet. The reality of life in England and the attitudes of many english people is far removed from that of the media and the Metropolitan elite....it takes more than a bunch shifty leftists and traitors to destroy England.
#2 thud (Link) on 2010-05-09 10:28 (Reply)
I'd rather observe it from afar; that way they can't spit in my food.
#3 Talnik on 2010-05-09 12:03 (Reply)

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