Notes From a Discrete Continent
'Ah, dejame entrar, dejame ver algún día como ven tus ojos'
René Christian Moya
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- An American enjoying 'the grime and thrill' of London, where I have lived since Autumn 2006. Born and raised in Los Angeles, I have since studied, live and worked in New Hampshire, Edinburgh and Montevideo.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 11:48AM - May 6: A Greek Reckoning?
April 11, 2012 09:59PM - ‘Naturally, we were all
there…’
January 25, 2012 10:26PM - ‘I am NOT SOCIALIST’:
Obama, ‘Liberals’ and
Socialism
January 25, 2012 09:50PM - No Judgements, Only Prayers
January 25, 2012 07:51PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hi Joseph Cole, thanks
for commenting! However, I
must
disagree with its
premise,…”
May 24, 2012 09:10AM - “Thanks for the input,
baltimore
aureole.
That
statement ('Yes to the euro,
no to a…”
May 22, 2012 01:14PM - “Thanks for the input,
STATHI STATHI!
I
partially agree with your
rebuttal, but I
t…”
May 21, 2012 10:39PM - “Pffft, given Spengler's
yelps are a century old,
methinks
I'll pass. ;)”
May 21, 2012 04:26PM - “Haha. Alright. I think
you're right about the tilt to
the
right rather than the
l…”
May 21, 2012 04:13PM
May 24, 2012 09:10AM
“Hi Joseph Cole, thanks for commenting! However, I must disagree with its premise, that nation's indulge in 'bad behaviour' by maintaining large public…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Hi Joseph Cole, thanks for commenting! However, I must disagree with its premise, that nation's indulge in 'bad behaviour' by maintaining large public…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 22, 2012 01:14PM
“Thanks for the input, baltimore aureole. That statement ('Yes to the euro, no to austerity') isn't a contradictory one--or at least wouldn't be if the E…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Thanks for the input, baltimore aureole. That statement ('Yes to the euro, no to austerity') isn't a contradictory one--or at least wouldn't be if the E…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 10:39PM
“Thanks for the input, STATHI STATHI! I partially agree with your rebuttal, but I think it needs to be hedged. It is true that the government signed that…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Thanks for the input, STATHI STATHI! I partially agree with your rebuttal, but I think it needs to be hedged. It is true that the government signed that…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 04:26PM
“Pffft, given Spengler's yelps are a century old, methinks I'll pass. ;)”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Pffft, given Spengler's yelps are a century old, methinks I'll pass. ;)”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 04:13PM
“Haha. Alright. I think you're right about the tilt to the right rather than the left in hard times. I'd only add that this might be the case to a degre…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Haha. Alright. I think you're right about the tilt to the right rather than the left in hard times. I'd only add that this might be the case to a degre…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 03:17PM
“Jejune Podiatrist - The idea that 'large waste' and 'corruption' would retard the multiplier effect of stimulus policy in a low-or-negative real policy…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Jejune Podiatrist - The idea that 'large waste' and 'corruption' would retard the multiplier effect of stimulus policy in a low-or-negative real policy…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
May 21, 2012 02:03PM
“Interesting comments, Jejune. I disagree with them, but they are food for thought, hehe. Yes, pro-growth policies need to be pursued. It doesn't seem li…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
“Interesting comments, Jejune. I disagree with them, but they are food for thought, hehe. Yes, pro-growth policies need to be pursued. It doesn't seem li…”
About: Greece’s Second Chance
February 20, 2012 10:22AM
“I'm sorry, this is going to be a LONG, follow-up comment. I wanted to post in full a lengthy paragraph in an article in the London Review of Books abou…”
About: Murder or Suicide?*
“I'm sorry, this is going to be a LONG, follow-up comment. I wanted to post in full a lengthy paragraph in an article in the London Review of Books abou…”
About: Murder or Suicide?*
February 20, 2012 10:18AM
“Glad to see Europe getting some front-cover coverage on Open Salon. :) I'd just haggle on one point: 'You can't help but thinking that the negotiators f…”
About: Murder or Suicide?*
“Glad to see Europe getting some front-cover coverage on Open Salon. :) I'd just haggle on one point: 'You can't help but thinking that the negotiators f…”
About: Murder or Suicide?*
February 14, 2012 11:19AM
“@baltimore aureole: Way to make wholly comments wholly lacking in context. I consider myself a pretty fierce critic of Obama from the left. But I can *a…”
About: The Fictional Obama
“@baltimore aureole: Way to make wholly comments wholly lacking in context. I consider myself a pretty fierce critic of Obama from the left. But I can *a…”
About: The Fictional Obama
February 14, 2012 10:49AM
“Good sketch of the Republican-drawn caricature Obama...and of the sorrows of us lefties. I've been left overwhelmingly unimpressed with Obama's preside…”
About: The Fictional Obama
“Good sketch of the Republican-drawn caricature Obama...and of the sorrows of us lefties. I've been left overwhelmingly unimpressed with Obama's preside…”
About: The Fictional Obama
June 09, 2010 09:22AM
“Thanks for the kind notes, Ablonde and Kathy! Though, I'd note, I'm a male--perhaps a cute male, if I may be hilariously presumptuous, but a male none…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
“Thanks for the kind notes, Ablonde and Kathy! Though, I'd note, I'm a male--perhaps a cute male, if I may be hilariously presumptuous, but a male none…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
June 08, 2010 05:29PM
“Hilarious.”
About: Israeli students draft plans for "Kurdish freedom flotilla"
“Hilarious.”
About: Israeli students draft plans for "Kurdish freedom flotilla"
June 08, 2010 04:49PM
“Teyuna! I want to apologise, I misspelt your name originally. That was a stupid mistake, and I apologise. Stellaa, love, I shan't. :) I knew you'd still…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
“Teyuna! I want to apologise, I misspelt your name originally. That was a stupid mistake, and I apologise. Stellaa, love, I shan't. :) I knew you'd still…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
June 08, 2010 04:42PM
“Norway, Sweden and Portugal have also taken the plunge. And civil partnerships with exactly the same legal rights exist in Germany and the UK--and pret…”
About: The Gay in Spain Where Pain is on The Wane
“Norway, Sweden and Portugal have also taken the plunge. And civil partnerships with exactly the same legal rights exist in Germany and the UK--and pret…”
About: The Gay in Spain Where Pain is on The Wane
June 08, 2010 02:09PM
“Thank you, Tayuna, and thanks primarily for your own insightful comments. I'm always happy to hear reasoned responses, more so than reading simple atta…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
“Thank you, Tayuna, and thanks primarily for your own insightful comments. I'm always happy to hear reasoned responses, more so than reading simple atta…”
About: Unnatural Sympathies: On Bias and American Self-Regard
June 08, 2010 12:36PM
“You 'don't particularly hate' the Palestinians? As in, not much more than you hate another indeterminate sort of people? Or as in, not that much? Is th…”
About: Natural Sympathies
“You 'don't particularly hate' the Palestinians? As in, not much more than you hate another indeterminate sort of people? Or as in, not that much? Is th…”
About: Natural Sympathies
June 08, 2010 10:19AM
“Oh, and I'd like to make a correction--should be 'loath', not 'loathe', on my post. Probably other errors in their as well--we're not all perfect. :)”
About: When Krystollites Attack -- The Sad End of Helen Thomas
“Oh, and I'd like to make a correction--should be 'loath', not 'loathe', on my post. Probably other errors in their as well--we're not all perfect. :)”
About: When Krystollites Attack -- The Sad End of Helen Thomas
June 08, 2010 10:11AM
“teresa, I understand why you're loathe to make this is into an Israel-bashing session. But the context of Helen Thomas' comments matters. She didn't ju…”
About: When Krystollites Attack -- The Sad End of Helen Thomas
“teresa, I understand why you're loathe to make this is into an Israel-bashing session. But the context of Helen Thomas' comments matters. She didn't ju…”
About: When Krystollites Attack -- The Sad End of Helen Thomas
June 08, 2010 09:43AM
“'...Markos Moulitsas of “The Daily Kos” and Huffington calling it an Isreali PR disaster...' This is the sort of shit that boggles my mind.…”
About: Weekly Politcal Wrap Up
“'...Markos Moulitsas of “The Daily Kos” and Huffington calling it an Isreali PR disaster...' This is the sort of shit that boggles my mind.…”
About: Weekly Politcal Wrap Up
June 08, 2010 09:17AM
“This post is quite risible on so many grounds, I don't even know where to begin. I could even start by shrugging off the idea of 'natural sympathies' b…”
About: Natural Sympathies
“This post is quite risible on so many grounds, I don't even know where to begin. I could even start by shrugging off the idea of 'natural sympathies' b…”
About: Natural Sympathies
November 25, 2009 04:57PM
“Well to be fair, Alan, the excited rumblings about a 'strong' presidency were always going to be wide of the mark. The European Union has been moving a…”
About: Europe's new president, or: The audacity of banality
“Well to be fair, Alan, the excited rumblings about a 'strong' presidency were always going to be wide of the mark. The European Union has been moving a…”
About: Europe's new president, or: The audacity of banality
November 10, 2009 10:54PM
“Good question, why DIDN'T Obama attend? In the event it wouldn't have mattered. Hillary Clinton was playing up the man's rock star credentials so embarr…”
About: Watching the dominoes fall in Berlin: Reflections on 11/9/09
“Good question, why DIDN'T Obama attend? In the event it wouldn't have mattered. Hillary Clinton was playing up the man's rock star credentials so embarr…”
About: Watching the dominoes fall in Berlin: Reflections on 11/9/09
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