Notes From a Discrete Continent

'Ah, dejame entrar, dejame ver algún día como ven tus ojos'
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
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
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
May 21, 2012 04:26PM
“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
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
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
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?*
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?*
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
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
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
June 08, 2010 05:29PM
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 10, 2009 10:42PM
“As a cruel joke I guess I would point out that, here in Europe, America's 9/11 is their 11/9, whilst their 9/11 is our 11/9. ;) But quite aside from dat…”
About: Day of destiny - Germany and November 9
November 10, 2009 09:37PM
“20 years after the wall fell Berlin is truly a different city. The same can be said for the rest of the former East Germany. Just look at the gleaming…”
About: East Berlin as seen in photos from 1967
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