Tag Jules Verne

“Capable of anything except the right”

By the way, I don’t even think Putin was offended when Biden called him a killer by replying “yes” to the interviewer’s question. (But then I don’t think Putin’s feelings are central to this story – Biden’s message is.) In…

Chekhov’s Prank

Chekhov started writing around 1880 to support his family while studying medicine and produced “more than 500 comic stories, spoofs, and vignettes for Moscow’s popular weekly magazines” in the 1880s. Some of them can be found in The Prank, the…

Amédée Florence’s posthumous dispatches

In the Oregon standoff trial, the defense has presented evidence of FBI infiltration verging into entrapment: Defense lawyers rested in the Oregon standoff case Monday after they called a witness who confirmed he was an informant for the FBI and…