I was just browsing the Tate website (I’m a frequent visitor to the London galleries) when I came across this (highlighting mine):

Generation Berlin Wall
Escape from the Real
Iron Curtains and Dark Fantasies
Saturday 7 November 2009, 19.00
In Escape from the Real, the tense condition of a capitalised and militarised world on one side and the repressive atmosphere of [...]

Dissident Frogman suggests that we, the anti-collectivists, are losing the war for hearts and minds. He gives this example, quoting the IMDB movie page for the ‘Boat that Rocks’ – a movie about a pirate radio station.

And by “all fronts”, I do mean “all fronts”. Example? Example:
Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors [...]

BBC covers Iran like so….
“Until recently, the United States was singled out as the Islamic Revolution’s principal opponent. This has changed.”
“By offering an ‘open hand’ to Iran since taking over as president, Barack Obama has challenged Iran’s traditional view of the ‘Great Satan’.”
“Britain, almost by default, has emerged as the target of Iranian ire.”
Thus managing [...]

Kicks off with some world-gone-to-pot style rambling:
(Ayatollah Khamanei) Remember god,
Iran has gone through a lot since the revolution
Any of them could have put us in turmoil
Even from our neighbors
(Allah o Akbar)
Our youth are in a materialistic world
In a time of turmoil
They need to understand spirituality,
They need to get back to spirituality,
But they don’t know how, [...]

[Warning: the following contains language some people may find offensive.]
Morning, June 4th 2009
10am: Wake up.  He can’t shake the habit of waking up early.   Years of helping people get their trucks sorted out before the working day began make it difficult for him to sleep for as long as some of his friends who [...]

via Hot Air we find:
This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the Nazis between 1942-1944 as a deportation holding camp for the Jews of Paris prior to [...]

Via National Review I came across this al-Jazeera interview:

Interviewer: Dr. Ghali, don’t you live in Egypt?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes, I do.
Interviewer: Don’t you see all the problems?
Boutrous-Ghali: These problems exist all over the world, not only in Egypt.
Interviewer: All over the world?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes.
Interviewer: Something like the al-Ahram strike takes place all over the world?
Boutrous-Ghali: Yes, there are [...]

From facebook:
And people suggest that this president generation might possibly be just a teensy weensy bit vapid and narcissistic.  How dare they!

On Wednesday Charles Murray gave the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture which he titled “The Happiness of the People”.
His thesis is that certain ways and manners of living are naturally harmonious with human nature, and with living a good life as distinct from living life well.
He relates the idea of the good life to that [...]

Lo, and idiocy spewed forth from the totally rubbish State Department of the totally rubbish Obama administration:
The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.
The [...]