Today I find myself in an unusual position. To begin with, if anyone ever tells you that I plagiarized a paper or doctoral dissertation, you can be sure they are lying simply because I’ve never authored one. I don’t have a university degree of any kind and there are no academic papers with my name on them. But that doesn’t mean that I’ve never written … Continue reading Papers, Please
As you (probably) know, the local elections are being held across the country this Sunday, June 10th. As an American, it’s always interesting to see the difference in how elections are being held here versus the country where I was born. The obvious difference is that there are strict laws on when campaigning can even begin. In America there are no time restrictions and theoretically … Continue reading Frying Pans and Buckets
I’m going to let you all in on a little secret concerning this here blog. A lot of you first came here because a friend gave you the link to a certain post and you’ve stayed ever since. Others of you found this blog by searching for information on Romania or the Romanian language and then decided to stick around for the show. But by … Continue reading Gypsy-Do
Well as I’ve written about before, the Pig Man and the Daddy Isarescu had big plans for Romania in 2012 with the first step to be selling off equity shares (or the entire company) of some of the last of this country’s state-owned firms. The first one on the block was Cupru Min (literally “Copper Mining”), a company that has rights to several large copper … Continue reading The Ballad of Cupru Min
Well gosh, you know since “forever” almost I’ve been wanting to do this but I never had the computer which could handle it. I have however been writing about it for quite a while now (along with a few short clips that took days to create). Now I finally can put it all together for all of you to see. 24 hours a day, 7 … Continue reading Romania and Romanians on American TV
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