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Photo of the Day #77
11/28/08
I hope all my American friends had a happy Thanksgiving, I know I did. In Amsterdam they aren’t so happy as we learn from Reuters…
Legalize it! The Hague 2005 © Damaso Reyes
“The Netherlands will ban the sale and cultivation of all hallucinogenic "magic" mushroo -
Photo of the Day #76
11/26/08
We have concentrated a lot on racism and discrimination in Western Europe but of course the problem is not so neatly contained as we learn from our good friends at Der Spiegel online in an article about anti-immigrant violence in the Czech Republic.
The writing is STILL on the -
Photo of the Day #75
11/24/08
All of you Francophiles who have long worried about English dominating Europe, especially its culture need not fear. As an article in the New York Times explained that a new digital library of European Culture has emerged and the French seem to have conquered it!
Vive la France! Par -
Photo of the Day #74
11/19/08
Official reports are usually pretty boring and don’t tell us much interesting but the European Commission has come out with a recent one that the International Herald Tribune tells us supports the idea that immigrants are good for Western European Economies.
Waiting for acceptance… -
In Memoriam: Mark Ferguson 1959-2008
11/17/08
Sorry that I haven’t been around for the past week but my very good friend Mark Ferguson died last week after a battle with cancer. He will be greatly missed and my thoughts are with his family.
Mark in Action! Wheaton Village 2006 © Damaso Reyes
We met ten years ag -
Photo of the Day #73
11/11/08
As we discussed yesterday there have been all kinds of reactions to Obama’s election. In an interesting story in The Guardian we get to hear from Trevor Phillips head of the U.K.’s equality watchdog.
Shout it out! London 2005 © Damaso Reyes
"If Barack Obama ha -
Photo of the Day #72
11/10/08
There are two kinds of people: those who love mirrors, stopping at every one they see in order to check their appearance and those who do everything they can to avoid them. The lens is a kind of mirror too, holding up an image of ourselves, often one that we would rather not see.
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Photo of the Day #71
11/05/08
Our time for change has come.
Hope for Europe as well. Vienna 2008 © Damaso Reyes
“Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as -
Yes We Can!
11/05/08
Yes We Did... -
Photo of the Day #70
11/04/08
I woke up this morning ready to vote. When I went outside it was a warm, lovely fall day, the kind that reminds you fondly of summer. When I was a kid I used to love these days although I hated the fact that I had to waste one of the last fine days of the year in school.
In the shad -
Photo of the Day #69
11/03/08
It is going to be a busy week, what with the historic election happening tomorrow. But I thought I would start things off with a light little article from the U.K.’s Telegraph. Apparently an expat Brit has become the accidental mayor of a small Spanish village.
Sorry about that Mr.
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Photo of the Day #77
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