Across Difficult Country

Exciting developments in Malaysia, where Across Difficult Country foreign correspondent Ismail Mat Taib has once again witnessed a barge wash up on the beach. The Daily Light reports : A resident of Mempisang Beach, Kampung Jawa, was surprised to see an object lying just off the coast that he initially believed was float logs, but apparently a barge overturned.  Local resident Ismail Mat Taib, 66, said he believed the barge is upside down due to the relatively strong waves. "Three days ago I was patrolling the beach on a motorcycle around 4 pm and I saw a large object in the sea. "At first I thought it was drift logs, but when viewed correctly, apparently it is a barge," he told the Daily Light.  According to him, to this day no party has come forward to claim ownership of the barge.  "Some villagers went to look, they look from a distance, to see if there were victims or goods, but they did not find anything," he said.  Meanwhile, Ismail said, a...

Each new accession of an “issue” leads to the demand that we demonstrate our “commitment.” Not coincidentally, the desired commitment invariably involves swelling the bureaucratic class and its power over our lives.  The spirit of neologism is perhaps best illustrated when it fastens on a word in common use. Note the recent career of the word “ diversity .” This term denotes a key conservative theme. As is pointed out by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in writings including his classic Leftism (1974), a devotion to diversity arguably distinguishes the Right from the Left. The elements of this devotion are many; consider, for example, respect for regional traditions, the insistence that human beings are not interchangeable, the tendency to think in terms of distinct persons rather than large classes of people, support for various institutions that shield individuals from the State, as well as the related belief in decentralization. We are now expected to restrict the term to one expli...

In Women's Team Handball, Vardar SCBT overcame a " problematic start " to defeat Thüringer. Rearranging the letters of PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN gives you HEROIN PAYS OFF, HIM LUMP. From China comes word of a Chinaman who built some heavy (400kg) iron shoes he walks all over in (up to 15 meters each day). His competitors at heavy shoes include Zhang Zhenghui, who wears gold-painted shoes weighing 200kg, and a runner named  Liu Mei, who ties sandbags to his feet. Next Saturday Dom and Russ from Chance will be rocking the Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland.