“The White House would prefer that I not talk openly about my experiences… I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessary to my past work. That’s a loyalty to the truth.”
– Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, quoted by Politico, on why he wrote What Happened.
Signifying Guyana blogs about her “personal struggle with a hyphenated identity”.
Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit believes that the country's escalating violence, especially among youth, “is not crime. It is impending social breakdown.”
Bermudian bloggers are incensed about the Premier's statement that making certain information public is “akin to asking a neural surgeon to come out of the operating room in the middle of an operation to answer about costs and procedures”: IMHO.bm: “This is not progressive, this is regressive”; Vexed Bermoothes: “The manipulation is transparent and artless.”
I’ve been in New York City this week. I’ll be returning home tomorrow. I came prepared to blog my experiences, but…
Belatedly, a link to a Eurovision report by BBC's Mark Mardell - and over 150 comments to his post.
Transatlantic Politics writes about corruption in Eastern and Central Europe: “A survey made amongst Romanian judges showed that most of them don’t consider corruption as being a serious crime.”
Maya's Corner quotes a passage on Georgi Stoev's murder and the dangers of writing under one's real name in Bulgaria.
Hungarian Spectrum writes about Ferenc Szálasi and Hungarian nationalist politics - here and here: “Perhaps no one will be surprised to discover that the man who came up with “Hungarism” wasn’t an ethnic Hungarian. His original name was Szalosján. His fraternal ancestors came from Armenia and settled in Transylvania […]. On his mother's side […]
Say: Macedonia writes about the first congress of the Macedonian “Rainbow Party” in Greece.
