Serbia Takes Me On Vacation: We Visit The Skull Tower

Yeah, boy, we humans - we're really something else,...

Hare Krishna Threats, A Non-Emergency, Scary Eastern Lightning, Forget About "Soulmates" & Building Loners

Horrifying Threats Against Congresswoman 

Tied To Obscure Hare Krishna Sect

World Federation of Scientists 

changes its policy: 

“Climate change in itself is not a planetary emergency.”

China's Scary And Fast-Growing Cult 

Eastern Lightning

Do’s and Don’ts 

When Your Partner isn’t Spiritual

Cult-itecture: 

The Compounds Of Reclusive Communities

1-2 Cha-Cha-Charles! 3-2 Cha-Cha-Charles!

Traveling The World Of The Seen And Not Seen

Because they're too busy mooning over the food?

"It seems to me very odd, and not at all reassuring, that a country such as France, with a practically unrivalled history of achievement in all the major fields of human endeavour, should have been precipitated into an orgy of self-examination by something as trivial as a failure in a football competition, when it is utterly indifferent to questions of incomparably greater importance: for example, why it is completely incapable, after a continuous and millennial history of wonderful architecture, of erecting a decent building, one that is not an eyesore? (It is not alone in this, of course.) I have never seen this question so much as raised, let alone answered, though I do not think any reasonably alert person could drive through France without asking himself it."

All I can say is, people willingly miss all kinds of shit when it comes to France, and I don't get it either.

Now, these guys - they don't miss a trick:

Just Like Before: You're Going To Feel Like A Fool (Once You Can Finally Get A Grip Again)

"Abandoned neighborhoods. Boarded-up harbor facilities. An oil refinery submerged under several feet of brackish water. The Statue of Liberty slowly sinking into the sea.

'Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront,' a new show at the Museum of Modern Art, reflects a level of apocalyptic thinking about this city that we haven’t seen since it was at the edge of financial collapse in the 1970s, a time when muggers roamed freely, and graffiti covered everything."

-- Nicolai Ouroussoff, reminding those of us who are old enough to remember the '70s - an extremely unhinged era, that featured everything from outrageously dumb fashion, and Area 51 conspiracy theories, to fears of "global cooling" - just how stupid this entire line of un-reasoning is, for The New York Times.

You people really ought to stop this. It's like everything you think, today, is a sign of weakness. Your imaginations are being wasted - on disasters that will never come - just like last time. Fear rules your lives.

I've always heard that life runs in cycles, but I never realized how much retardation was a part of that as well,...will we ever learn?

These Weird, Scared, And Ugly Little Critters

"Green campaigners and writers would dearly love to see prince Charles control our lifestyles. The lionisation of Charles by liberals is perhaps one of the strangest developments of recent years. Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Prince Charles was widely derided and ridiculed. His views on architecture, organic farming and his habit of talking to plants were rightly lampooned across the political spectrum. Now a weird and alarming reverence surrounds the prince and his nutty pronouncements are taken very seriously indeed.

In 2005 Charles demanded that then US president George W Bush should prioritise tackling ‘global warming’. Hardly an eyebrow was raised over an unelected figurehead finger-wagging at a democratically elected president. To the contrary, he was cheered. The Times (London) asked earnestly ‘should Bush listen to Prince Charles?’, as if he was offering sound and insightful advice.

The support from apparent leftists for Charles’ environmentalism is indicative of just how far material aspiration has disappeared from progressive political thinking. After losing the arguments on the economy and social change, liberal left wingers’ promotion of green ideas and ethical living – effectively swapping materialism for moralism – found a welcome ally amongst the upper classes.

Not long ago, the landed upper classes and royalty were widely despised and mocked, even by those of a moderate political persuasion. They were rightly seen as a barrier to Britain becoming a modern liberal democracy. Now, it seems, many can’t get enough of the upper classes’ ‘green credentials’. From hectoring us on healthy eating to preventing new homes being built, the dead hand of these deadbeats is weighing heavy on ordinary citizens.”

-- Neil Davenport, noticing - more than any other group - it's those pink-bellied liberal upper classes pushing this NewAge nonsense on the rest of us, demanding we relinquish our freedoms, before realizing the Kool-Aid's been Spiked!.

Dummy: The Earth Is Blue - Not Green

""The green guys, their moralism and do-gooderness - phew. Horrible.”

- Thom Mayne, "architectural iconoclast"