Dithyramb

Robert Mayhew...

comments on Robert Tracinski's use of ancient philosophy in "What went Right?" over at Diana Hsieh''s Noodlefood.

Play Orc

Play Orc for those kinky people who really love The Lord of the Rings!

Complete with articles and all...

Summer Vacation Photos Caspar David Friederich Style

These photos which I took last summer while vacationing in Iceland reminds me of the strange chill desolateness of Caspar David Friederichs The Sea of Ice

Caspar David Friederich - The Sea of Ice

Some more photos

The non-Collapse of Western Civilization

Noumenal Self comments on Robert Tracinski's "What Went Right?"-series.

Illusions

Klaus Nordby has created a few illusions on his webpage. I especially like this one!

Rush Limbaugh recommends...

Atlas Shrugged

Filipstad, Oslo, Norway 2005

Don't disturb!

Russians warned to stay away from grumpy insomniac bears

Say What?

Reindeer may get own their own tunnels!

Unbelivable. What next? Special Health Spas for squirrels and elderly turtles? The welfare state in all its blatant absurdity never secess to amaze!

Vulcanic Landscape

Summer Vacation Photo

US Foreign Policy

John Lewis: America's Sanction of its enemies

Reyjkavik, June 2006

The New Importance of the Barents Sea

From Newsweek: Norwegian Gold - The Barents sea could become Europe's natural-gas Klondike—and an alternative to Russia.

Excerpt:

Back during the cold war, the Barents—shared uneasily by Russia and Norway—was best known as a home for the prized Arctic cod and for hide-and-seek games between American and Soviet submarines. Today it's set to become Europe's energy Klondike, a last untapped pool of natural resources. Beneath the seabed lies not only oil but enough natural gas to meet much of the continent's needs for decades. And it's Norway that's heading the exploration race, with a first field due to come on stream later this year. "This whole region is re-emerging as something new on the European radar screen," says Store. "We have to go out with our maps and explain what it's all about."

He can expect an enthusiastic audience with European leaders ever more anxious for access to fresh energy supplies from friendly neighbors. These days Russia ranks as Europe's principal source of natural gas, and evidence of the Kremlin's readiness to use its status for political leverage has become frequent, whether it's in pricing spats with Ukraine last winter or with Belarus last month. "What has changed is that Russia has begun using energy as a political tool," says Dmitry Kisilev of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Strategic Studies Center. "Europeans fear that they will be next."

Geysir

Mark Steyn on Saddam's Hanging

Mark Steyn has written a piece entitled Blowing a 'hinge moment' of history where he examines the media's use of "the mainstream European view" which he argues is held by very few.

Happy New Year!