Peter Singer – One World (Summary)
Here is another summary of a book. This time, it’s Peter Singer’s “One World”, which I had to study for part two of “Democracy & Justice” (Democratie & Rechtvaardigheid). Again,...
A Silent Reminder of Yesterday’s Dealings
Yesterday, a Sunday, saw the Leiden Marathon take place. There are multiple reasons why this interested me, running itself isn’t one of them. The first reason is that my sister...
The 2013 Summer Hit?
Last year I quite accurately predicted in April Rudimental’s “Feel the Love” would be the summer hit of 2012. This year, I’m willing to make another prediction. Macklemore & Ryan...
The Leiden High School-Shooting Hoax?
On saturday, some nutcase posted this on 4chan. Because I live in Leiden, this sparked my interest. Not only mine, but also that of the police. Every high school is...
Robert A. Dahl – On Democracy (Summary)
This is a summary of Robert A. Dahl’s book ‘On Democracy’ (1998). It is written in English, due to possible translation issues, but, for full disclosure, my native language is...
Putin is visiting Amsterdam, Amnesty jumps on the Bandwagen
I noticed these pictures on my facebook-feed, made an Imgur-album of them and they are currently featuring on the frontpage of Reddit, just below the news of Thatcher’s death. All...
A Eulogy for Chavez
Our good friend, the great leader of the magnificent people of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has passed away. A day of mourning for all of us, but if you’re one of...
Sunshine of your Love
12th of March, 2012. The first real day of spring. In order to celebrate, I wrote a post about it. The theme-song of that day was The Beatles’ ‘Here...
Game of Thrones S03 – only 30 more days.
I must say, waiting for season 3 was less hard than I had expected. However, there are still 30 more days of waiting ahead of me: the first episode will...
