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Author Archives: Andreas Moser
Easily Confused (10) Big Breasts
“Big Breasts & Wide Hips”, a book by the Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan: Big breasts and wide hips in Malta: Big breasts and wide hips in my imagination:
The Mo Yan Poll
My empty, questioning stare when I heard that this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature would go to the Chinese author Mo Yan showed me three things: that I don’t read enough books, that I don’t read enough literary supplements of … Continue reading
Don’t be a sissy!
If you are scared of taking a risk, if you give up before you start, if you think that it’s not worth the fight, if you back down out of fear and slip back into your comfortable life instead of pursuing your … Continue reading
Easily Confused, # 8
Show trial in Ukraine: Show trial in Russia: Show trial in the Vatican: Feel free to add more examples.
The EU is finally a World Power
You know you have reached the level of world power when your flags get burned in the streets. America, step aside – here comes the EU. Now if only the protesters in Greece could explain what they want to express … Continue reading
The image of Germany in Brazil
It is astonishing how quickly Germany regained a positive image in the world after starting two world wars, setting the whole continent of Europe on fire and attempting to exterminate the Jews of the world. Thanks to the Cold War … Continue reading
Phones during Meals
Last week I had a guest via Couchsurfing and we had very interesting discussions which we continued over dinner. Both the discussions and the dinner were however interrupted each time my guest’s phone made a beeping sound. He acknowledged that … Continue reading
Where is Charlie Wilson when you need him?
Charlie Wilson was a member of the US House of Representatives who in the 1980s lobbied intensively for arming the Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union. He personally secured a lot of the funding for the Afghan Mujahideen from the … Continue reading
Easily Confused, # 7
Clint Eastwood arguing with an empty chair: Mitt Romney having a debate with an empty podium:
Posted in Politics, USA
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Old Houses and their Stories
“What is the story of this house?” That is what I wondered when I saw this majestic but derelict house withering away between the autumn foliage at Trakai in Lithuania. Later that day I stumbled across another building which was … Continue reading
Posted in Lithuania, Photography, Travel
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The Happy Hermit 