Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sunday, February 10, 2019

The kiss

Adharam madhuram cultural? “In 2015, Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, launched an ethnographic study of 168 cultures across the globe and discovered that only 46 per cent of them practise romantic kissing – that is, via prolonged, open-mouthed, lip-to-lip contact.” from The Age.

Saturday, February 02, 2019

Michael Hudson on Trump

If Michael Hudson is correct, Trump seems to be doing what one hoped: Trump’s brilliant strategy to dismember US dollar hegemony. David Isenberg from Cato Institute suggests strategies What America can’t win wars.