Iced Borscht

I’ve been in a literary dry spell for a while. Bought a Gore Vidal book and barely touched it. And I haven’t bothered to finish a few other things sitting around. Can’t get motivated to properly dig into this quite yet either. But there are a few newly available titles trickling into the market right [...]

 Emphases mine. Abandoned Olympic sites. Daily Kos, always eager to serve and fellate the current executive office, champions the Surveillance State here. Daniel Kalder: “On a recent visit to Istanbul I stayed in an apartment looking out on the Bosphorus. Every morning I’d get up and see the sun sparkling on the surface of the [...]

“Ancient Olympic dopers got their pre-Games hormone boost from chewing on raw animal testicles.” Brian Doherty on Gore Vidal, who is now dead: “Vidal had a winning mistrust of elites and understood–and this is the key to why so many cannot tolerate him–that they, especially in the American security and foreign policy apparati, didn’t necessarily [...]