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Politics

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Put Your Hands Together For The PDL/UDMR Superstar Cabinet of Ministers™!

Tonight as I was heading to a meeting I saw about 20-30 people chanting in Piata Unirii (here in Cluj). I was too far away to understand what they were chanting or read their signs but I could tell the protesters were all about 40-60 years old with not a young person in sight (I suppose if I were a better blogger I would’ve had … Continue reading Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Put Your Hands Together For The PDL/UDMR Superstar Cabinet of Ministers™!

Unknown's avatarSam Cel Roman4 Comments
Money, probability and predicting the future, Politics

Dragotescu Questions Proposed Wage Slave Law

Just recently I was complaining to The Woman that there aren’t enough journalists in Romania doing a good job at actually, you know, being journalists, digging into secrets, asking tough questions and writing well-researched pieces. Looks like I definitely spoke too soon! Yesterday during an otherwise “boring” press conference, the journalist Corina Dragotescu got Traian Basescu on the ropes, peppering him with questions, causing him … Continue reading Dragotescu Questions Proposed Wage Slave Law

Unknown's avatarSam Cel Roman13 Comments
Politics

Politics In Romania: Puppet Theater

You know, living here in Romania, you’d think I’d be more interested in politics, politicians and what’s happening on the political scene. The truth though is that I really don’t care very much at all. Frankly I’m not missing out on a whole lot. Just about all of the political players of any consequence are holdovers from the Communist era, a group of graying, balding … Continue reading Politics In Romania: Puppet Theater

Unknown's avatarSam Cel Roman2 Comments