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May 2011

Christine Lagarde, candidate to be the next managing director of the IMF, replacing the recently departed Dominique Strauss-Khan. What exactly is she trying to tell …

thebadmonkey replied to your post: The “Spanish Revolution” explained do you think it has the momentum to actually become a revolution? I’m not sure. I …

Now, I’ve been awake since 6PM Saturday, and it’s 7:47AM Monday, and I’m yelling about tennis on my own blog, so I might just be sleep deprived, but I think a mild amount of skepticism in the face of the protests hitting western Europe is healthy. My Spanish is super rusty and I refuse to use online translators, so I’m slowly making my way through the analysis you linked in your last post, but I don’t think you’re doing anyone a disservice by withholding support for this particular movement when it is–from where I’m sitting–ignoring a significant portion of the population that could actually benefit from having their voices heard.

Well, I am not outright dismissing them, for now. I am, as you rightfully point out, withholding my enthusiasm. This part of their original manifesto …

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