seanessay.com Derek Sivers’s blog has scores of comments for his recent Travelling Just for the People. (Instead for landmarks and tourist sights) A few of the commenters, no doubt representing many lurkers, lamented they don’t know how to meet the locals. “Not even in bars and cafes” says one, explaining he came from a more […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]
Russians glum but Joking
seanessay.com Preface In my university not-so-stuffy Latin class, one day, as students entered, I was chuckling to the serious lady next to me. Such fun words in our Latin textbook, such as lycanthrope (werewolf) and one of today’s words, defenestrate. She said earnestly, “I saw that word last night, and I didn’t understand.” Of course […]
Russian says Adults will Wriggle like Eels
seanessay.com Reminder: The Kremlin said the troops were massing for peaceful purposes and would never cross the Ukraine border. In the first weeks of the “special military operation” Russian civilians refused to believe their own relatives who told them Russia was shelling their buildings, and soon the Kremlin said the Ukrainians were shelling themselves. Remember? […]
Freedom of Thought for Muslims
seanessay.com “Free your mind, and the rest will follow.” Small town Alberta singer k.d. Lang Dancing with a concept Everybody knows that smaller towns, or more restrictive religions, result in narrower minds. Yes but why? It’s as if, sometimes, peers and relatives can be too restrictive—while right now Russia is one vast rural sprawl, under […]
Freedom of Speech for Muslims
seanessay.com If a man ever needed dying, he did No man had the right to say, what he said About you Sung by a man surrounded by police In Indiana Wants Me by singer-songwriter R Dean Taylor (If you can type the title then you don’t need me to link for you) They say that […]