Peter Murmann

Marageret Storm Jameson said:

Happiness comes of the capacity

to feel deeply,

to enjoy simply,

to think freely,

to risk life,

to be needed.

 

 

NY Times: 2010: The Year in Pictures

A more poetic version of the year appeared in:

Spiegel Online:  52 pictures of 2010

 

Picture: Child in Africa inspired by the World Cup!

Charles Krauthammer, the conservative editorialist of the Washington Post, warns his Republican friends that Obama is not to be written off. It is useful to remember that in politics, just like in any sport or busines, you don’t have to be perfect. You only have to be better than the compeitition. Riding the lamest of ducks, [Read More]

Source: http://pollingreport.com/civil.htm

It is difficult for individuals to change their personalities; it also also difficult for countries to change their personalities. Derek Leebaert desribes the lens through which American diplomats have thinking about the world for a long time. Our Envoys, Ourselves (NY Times) A GLOBAL power’s diplomatic archives are inevitably full of caustic dispatches. In Britain, a [Read More]

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders? And even if one were to suddenly take me to its heart, I would vanish into its stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel [Read More]

Christopher Hitchens recently was diagnosed with cancer.  More often than not I disagree with his positions, but I am never bored by what he has to say. He is also a superb writer. I wish I could write so quickly and eloquently as he can.  Andrew Anthony interviewed the pugnacious and hard-driking author this fall [Read More]