Owlspotting

In toamna lui 2004 eram intr-un curs de etica la University of Missouri si citeam “Lying” (de Sissela Bok) o carte excelenta despre prevalenta minciunilor de toate culorile in societatea contemporana. Printre randuri autoarea sugera ca minciuna — sau impopotonarea faptelor reale — a devenit o practica acceptabila din punct de vedere social. Ideea autoarei […]

Update (Feb. 6): I found this story online on Saturday, Feb 4. It was planned for A1 on Sunday, but breaking news made the Post hold it. It eventually ran inside on Monday so my enthusiasm about Romania making the front page of Washington’s daily was not warranted. If you are a second- or third-tier […]

E dificil sa scrii un articol comprehensiv despre bloguri — fie el rezumat la o arie geografica — pentru ca nu stii niciodata ce risti sa uiti pe dinafara. Nu poti scrie despre toate blogurile, nu poti scrie despre toti bloggeri, si chiar apuci sa vorbesti cu o duzina, tot va fi greu sa generalizezi. […]

I just returned from a 10-day trip to my home country of Romania. Although most of the time I spent in the motherland was devoted to family and friends, I did find a few hours to write an op-ed about my home country. The piece ran today in the Christian Science Monitor. It was originally […]

Thom Fitzgerald visited Romania. Bless his heart and the money he spent to boost my country’s doomed economy in the dark ages of 2002 — a time before iPods (when Discmans ruled); a time of few malls; a time when stray dogs, stray cripples, stray whores and stray Canadian diplomats lived in a loving putrid […]

Today is one of those days when The New York Times turns its mighty eye to my home country of Romania. The topic is — and it comes as no surprise — orphans. Nicholas Wood has been covering Central and Eastern Europe for a while and his stories appear both in the International Herald Tribune […]

There are some people that just shouldn’t try to write about Romania. Joel Stottrup from the Princeton Union-Eagle is one of them. Granted, there’s not much to expect from a paper serving a little over 4,000 people in Princeton, Minnesota, but the disastrous story the paper ran a week ago is a gem of horrid […]

The Washington Post gave a nod to Romanian ingenuity — or lack of resources — in a short story today. Stefan Candea of the Romanian Centre for Investigative Reporting, the journalist in the story, looks to be gathering ammo from the the Foreign Agent Registration Act Unit, probably for use in a story on the […]

Romania is under water. The recent floods in 33 of the country’s 42 districts killed 21 people and left more than 12,000 without a home. According to a Reuters report, the floods are the worst the country has seen in 50 years, topping the floods of April and May, which produced an estimated damage of […]

Acesta este un test pentru toate intrarile ce vor fi facute in limba romana. O mare revolutie grafica a fost realizata cu acest stegulet. Nu pot decat sa va indemn sa cititi dbrom.