Neil MacFarlane

We may be living post-historically. Russia is not.

Russia Today

Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections.

Mark Danner

If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame?

Timothy Garton Ash

Europe is nice, boring and irrelevant. In many ways this is a great achievement. (…) The whole of Europe today is Greater Switzerland.

Horst Schlämmer

HSP is conservative, liberal, left-wing and a bit ecological.

“I don’t want to run auto companies, and I don’t want to run banks. I’ve got two wars I’ve got to run already – I’ve got more than enough to do.”  Barack Obama (via euromatt)

At first sight the idea of centre-right communists sounds as odd as “moderate Trotskyites” or “secular jihadists”. Economist.com

“The real European election happens on 27 September.” Timothy Garton Ash

“Erfahrung heißt gar nichts. Man kann seine Sache auch 35 Jahre schlecht machen.” – Kurt Tucholsky

“When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible.” Lifehacker

“Wetter, Verwandtschaft und Staatsoberhäupter hat man nun mal.” – Karel Schwarzenberg