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September 9th, 2008
West Ham are about to make Zola their new manager, at least if the rumor can be believed. At first, I thought Balzac would be a better fit for the post, but then it occurred to me that Balzac still has traces of sentimentality, and what West Ham need is exactly the kind of unflinching sense of systemic inhumanity and cruelty that only Zola can provide.
Two great sets of questions for Sarah Palin
September 9th, 2008
Foreign Policy provides 20 questions and the Anchorage Daily News offers nine. The Foreign Policy questions would be a good list for John McCain as well. I fear ABC’s Charlie Gibson won’t be so incisive.
GOP = OPNP
September 9th, 2008
Douglas Muir on Fistful of Euros writes about Serbian politics, but he also provides a wonderful new acronym for American politics: OPNP. That stands for Obnoxious Populist Nationalist Party. According to Muir, all Balkan countries have one. The sad thing is the US has one too.