Sunday, November 23, 2003
Croatians go to the polls tomorrow to choose between some pretty diametric alternatives -- engagement and rapid EU entry or continued nationalist strife and insufficient cooperation with the ICTY/Hague.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
According to the latest Vjesnik poll, Ivica Racan's SDP and Ivo Sanader's HDZ are statistically tied with 24% support in this Sunday's parliamentary election in Croatia. Vjesnik broke down the survey results by district and concluded that though the rightist, more nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) will win the plurality of Sabor mandates, the Social Democrats (SDP) -- in coalition with their regional partners -- appear to be in a better position to form a government. Welcome news indeed for those EU-enthusiasts who want to see Croatia in by 2007 along with Romania and Bulgaria.
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Today my patriotism is beyond doubt -- Amerika has bested Italy in the biannual World Contract Bridge Championships in Monaco. All he had to do was play the queen of spades. All he had to do. But no, he played the seven -- why? the bridge world wondered. Was it the rigors of competition play? The salty Rivera air? A born-again love of sevens? We'll have two years to wonder what might have been. And I mean gloat.
Monday, November 17, 2003
Hooray! -- It's true. The counter does not lie. Just under four weeks until Bethie! Now, if only we could arrange for a little Frodo... (a lot of Frodo? a never-ending lifetime of Frodo? Whoa, back up there.)
Well the good news is this -- my Amazon order arrived today to great fanfare and the general laughing of children all along the {tree-lined, wind-swept, hyphen-less} promenades of 16th Street. While the children laugh, I run inside with Donna Tartt's Little Friend, Halldor Laxness's Independent People, Hernando de Soto's The other path: an economic answer to terrorism, Dean Acheson's memoirs, and William Saletan's diatribe on the success of Congressional conservatives in shaping abortion as a privacy issue. Cue John Podesta. (You'll of course remember Mr. Laxness for his 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, I suspect Iceland Air probably has an Airbus or two named after him.)
In other news, my failure to complete a crossword puzzle this weekend hurts me in ways we trogledytes cannot understand. Also, I appear to have hit Crate&Barrel hard. So at least something's going right.
In other news, my failure to complete a crossword puzzle this weekend hurts me in ways we trogledytes cannot understand. Also, I appear to have hit Crate&Barrel hard. So at least something's going right.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
And a very pleasant Armistice Day to you as well. That said, with George Soros's recent announcement that unseating GWB constitutes his "life work," Soros's feelings towards Bush take one step closer to my feelings for Kid Rock.
"It's a cause embraced by a loose coalition of dissident priests, extreme nationalist newspapers and politicians, monarchists and an increasing number of regular Orthodox believers..." The movement to canonize Ivan the Terrible, in today's Post.
Danas je . Čitate stalno Joshievo izaslanstvo.