The fact is that one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it’s doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of Congress, which means that the country will not, in fact, be governable without that party’s cooperation — cooperation [...]
In Portugal, the opposing parties prefer to let the current government die slowly and painfully (in portuguese) than try to dissolve it and put a new and (hopefully) better one in place. This decision represents the current politics in Portugal: It’s a country where politicians care more about themselves instead of their country. It’s a [...]
O jornal Publico tem hoje várias peças sobre o que foi o primeiro ano de Obama (pdf com tudo aqui) e o que espera que vai ser o segundo ano. O que não está no publico de hoje é que o lugar no senado de do estado de Massachusetts (onde eu vivo) deixou de ser [...]
A Sarah Palin tem um artigo de opinião no Washington Post que remata da seguinte forma: In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to “restore science to its rightful place.” But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific [...]
Let’s hope I can still retrieve money from ATM machines during my stay at HK… :-)
It would be nice to make this into a blogosphere meme. “I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.” James Nachtwey More information here.
A religiao tem um papel fulcral na vida de grande parte dos americanos. E’, afinal, o pais rico que tem a maior percentagem de pessoas religiosas. Religiosos a serio, nao e’ como 99% dos Portugueses onde e’ mais cultural que religioso. Mais grave que isso e’ a influencia que tem na vida politica do pais. [...]
Por outro lado, tambem pode querer dizer que a sociedade nao tem capacidade de se regenerar de forma fluida…