Aren't the Norks dreamy?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:12 am
Especially since I have recently gone into a Russian Revolution (and its results) reading rabbit hole-Anne Applebaum , Orlando Figes, Solzhenitsyn etc.
It is fun to see the NYT and CNN (among others) go full Walter Duranty over a pretty face from North Korea. Nice to see the tradition of NYT cowtowing and fawning over murderous dictatorships still lives on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/worl ... mpics.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/asia/kim ... index.html\
CNN>>>>"If "diplomatic dance" were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un's younger sister would be favored to win gold.<<<<
I guess if CNN and the NYT were the judge she would win the gold, not sure how many others would vote for her.
FWIW, it has been 20 years since I read Gulag Archipelago. My memory of it was that Volume 1 was a bit of a slog, but that Volume 2 and 3 were transcendant. I am about half done with re-reading Volume 1 and it is really good, much better than I remembered. Any book that starts with Gulag prisoners discovering and then eating frozen prehistoric salamanders has to be good.
It is fun to see the NYT and CNN (among others) go full Walter Duranty over a pretty face from North Korea. Nice to see the tradition of NYT cowtowing and fawning over murderous dictatorships still lives on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/worl ... mpics.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/asia/kim ... index.html\
CNN>>>>"If "diplomatic dance" were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un's younger sister would be favored to win gold.<<<<
I guess if CNN and the NYT were the judge she would win the gold, not sure how many others would vote for her.
FWIW, it has been 20 years since I read Gulag Archipelago. My memory of it was that Volume 1 was a bit of a slog, but that Volume 2 and 3 were transcendant. I am about half done with re-reading Volume 1 and it is really good, much better than I remembered. Any book that starts with Gulag prisoners discovering and then eating frozen prehistoric salamanders has to be good.