Susan Sontag has died

Susan Sontag died today of leukemia. more here and here

A defender of human rights and gender equity, Voices such as hers are needed to sort us out in our collective insanity. She will be missed.

Hey, she was one of the few contemporary writers I actually read. (She and Walker Percy)

Multiculturalism - just a blip here

Gustav Seibt whom I like anyway writes some interesting things. why mulitculturalism in Europe works different from American. And what th influence of religious wars bring to Europe. Again it is the scars that distinguish Europe from America. Europe has been there already. We had religious wars and know how it is, when the state is being influenced by the Religious Authority. For four hundred years those wars killed millions and its those people that chickend out from these fights and fled to America that haven't got a clue again.

Sigh.