the anatomy of meloncholy

Clicking along the ledge

#5 David Norris would make a terrible, terrible president (June 10th)
Just because you like someone, and just because their election would generate positive press coverage for your country the world over, it does not make them that person a good – or even remotely suitable – candidate for high office. This blog was a fraction ahead of the curve on that one, I like to think. Read the rest of this entry »

The March of the Wooden Soldiers

Forever let this place be a cry of despair
And a warning to humanity, where the Nazis
murdered about one and a half million men,
women and children, mainly Jews,
from various countries of Europe”
Inscription at Auschwitz-Birkenau Read the rest of this article here.

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

January is undoubtedly the most depressing month of the year. To celebrate, I’m republishing the most depressing article I’ve ever written. If you make it to the end without killing yourself, there’s a prize.