🗞🌾 The World Bank's oracle despairs. 🇷🇺 Russian mines will take months to clear. 🇨🇳 China moves into Cambodia. 🇮🇷Iran threatens to leave the NPT. 🦷Patrice Lumumba's tooth ... and more.
Is it just me, or is modern media Russian overly verbose, stylistically vacuous, and pompous? Every translation I see of official or media sources doesn’t even have the sound and the fury; it just means nothing. They make US State Department releases sound profound and almost terse. It’s almost as if Russian outlets have to satisfy an Eastern potentate with empty encomia and formulaic glorifications.
I feel like the western media is really missing out by not reprinting the rambling madness of foreign propaganda outlets. Let's not forget the weird religion that is the North Korean state media.
For your entertainment: John Lithgow performing a dramatic reading of a Newt Gingrich press release:
Also: How did nature--by means of random mutation and natural selection--produce a parrot that finds it advantageous to whistle *Mozart?* Almost perfectly in tune? Why? I could watch that video in puzzlement and awe for hours.
Aren’t those Ukrainian mines in the Black Sea? Put down to stop Russia taking Odessa using their amphibious what nots?
Is it just me, or is modern media Russian overly verbose, stylistically vacuous, and pompous? Every translation I see of official or media sources doesn’t even have the sound and the fury; it just means nothing. They make US State Department releases sound profound and almost terse. It’s almost as if Russian outlets have to satisfy an Eastern potentate with empty encomia and formulaic glorifications.
I feel like the western media is really missing out by not reprinting the rambling madness of foreign propaganda outlets. Let's not forget the weird religion that is the North Korean state media.
For your entertainment: John Lithgow performing a dramatic reading of a Newt Gingrich press release:
https://youtu.be/WS5F8X11h5s
Nice parrot
Incredible, no? I'm flabbergasted that he can do that without lips.
Also: How did nature--by means of random mutation and natural selection--produce a parrot that finds it advantageous to whistle *Mozart?* Almost perfectly in tune? Why? I could watch that video in puzzlement and awe for hours.
Fun fact: my most intelligent coworker at PetsMart when I was in college was an African Grey.
Keeps him from being fried and served with mashed potatoes and coleslaw.
I like Toby Young's description of Boris Johnson as not "unduly constrained by principle."