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It’s Censuspocalypse!

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first […]

Life, Politics

Welcome to the 2024 Paris Olympics

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Malia Obama: Good morning and welcome to CNN’s live coverage of the opening ceremony of the Games of the 23rd Olympiad. Lena Dunham: It’s good […]

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The Warsaw Uprising, lest we forget

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Every year, on August the 1st, the whole of Warsaw comes to a standstill at the W-Hour, 5pm, the start of the Warsaw Uprising in […]

Life, Politics

Which one of the 33 genders are you?

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

There are two sides to every story, three persons in the Holy Trinity, and four seasons, elements, and points of the compass â€“ but according […]

Happiness, Life, Politics

Looking for love in all the wrong place, the Convention Edition

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Forget the boring party Conventions with their overhyped and hyperventilated rhetoric and the ugly divisions between the Trump and Never Trump forces on the one […]

Happiness, Life, Politics

Shooting range vs yoga

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

â€œLike the outdoors or going to the shooting range? So do a majority of conservatives interested in love. Liberals looking for love prefer museums, yoga […]

Happiness, Life, Politics

Happy birthday America, and please pick up your act

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 240th anniversary of the original Brexit. Despite some initial reasonable showing from the Remain campaign, the […]

Life, Politics

Elie Wiesel

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

While we were busy electioneering in Australia, Elie Wiesel passed away in New York at the age of 87. A Romanian Jew, he was the […]

Culture, Life, Politics

The Joy of Sex* (and Books)

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

I have been coming to Bookfests since the very first one, more than twenty years ago. In case youâ€™re not from around here, Bookfest is […]

Culture, Happiness, Life

Happy Barbarossa

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, as it then was, was invaded by German hipsters. Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, could start […]

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Kids these days…

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day Iâ€™ve learned a lot about young people from two articles. As many of you know, as an embittered, elderly Gen Xer I […]

Culture, Happiness, Life, Politics

Make America Poland Again

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Now listen here; this is it. Â Iâ€™ve had an absolute gutful of all this racism and prejudice. You might have gotten away with having a […]

Culture, Life, Politics

Happy 29th birthday, â€œTear down this Wall!â€

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Twenty-nine years ago today â€“ when America had a real president and the Free World a real leader: As I looked out a moment ago […]

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On Iron Maidens and the power of music

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Iâ€™ve just finished watching an oldish (8 years) doco about Iron Maidenâ€™s 2008 â€œSomewhere Back In Timeâ€ world tour and it got me reflecting on […]

Culture, Happiness, Life

Who’s on first?

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Everyoneâ€™s making history these days. Come November, America might have the first female President, hard on the heels of the first African-American President. The US […]

Life, Politics

This blogger signed onto Tinder. What happened next will bring tears to your eyes.

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Welcome to clickbait, suckers. No, not really. But you all seem to have a voyeuristic fascination with online dating apps, donâ€™t you? People, particularly women, […]

Happiness, Life