Recent content by John Uskglass

Goddamn this movie rocks. See it as soon and as often as you can. It is better then Boogie Nights, which also rocked.

We use it more then Russia uses Siberia. Except Novosibirstk. Uh. Wait. Belarus and the Ukraine I can kind of understand, even parts of Kazakhstan, but seriously Congressional Poland?

I read this as "Eroticism in Russia" at first. I am very disappointed.

Silly. The Dutch were at the time as religious as anyone on earth thanks to the Theological stylings of John Calvin, but also the most tolerant. Adam Smith knew it when he looked at the early Methodists. Religion flourishes where it is not encouraged. An open market of Religion is far...

It is the best American movie of the decade.

You kind of miss what I am saying. Liberal Democracy will stay intact throughout the next drama because it maintains a real, if anything BIGGER idealogical monopoly then it has ever before. Now Liberal Democracy itself probably will change dramatically to changes coming in the next...

Okay. I'd forgotten that with my argue-lust. Again; your vocabulary is odd to me. Democracy exists in opposition to Autocracy, not as a complete ideology including an economic system and social values. I think you are talking about Liberal Capitalist Democracy. Not really. Ideas do not...

Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, Turkey...that's a pretty huge chunk of the globe right there. Granted, democracy may be contracting in certain countries, but Democratization has always gone through booms and contractions; look at the reaction to the 1848 Revolutions, or the...

Then how can something be said to decline if it is at the peak of its power and no alternative system presents itself? My politics have changed a lot over the last little while, thanks in part to Tony Judt's Post-War. And I object to that. Sarkozy is in certain respects more of an...

Old.

Just for the record: I am slightly drunk. Systems crumble in the face of a superior system. What in God's name is the superior system? Petrocracy a la Venezuela and Russia? Oligarchy like China, backed up by the complete corruption of an ideology that ACTUALLY crumbled? Both of...

It is a temporary hike. Eventually investments in other sources will start pining out, resulting in a decline in prices as the Mid East drops prices to compete with non-fucked up sources.

Great preview guys. Frankly I love that this isn't entirely negative; just goes to show that NMA people are not as crazy as some might believe. And there seems to be some room, a fool's hope, for improvement.

Yeah, it is pretty obviously Czech.

Shut up. Now.