Archive for September, 2010
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Change You Used to Believe In
I suppose it was naïve to have believed in Change, to have let oneself get caught up on Hope. But it had been a tough eight years, and it wasn’t hard to think that our excitement about the cosmetic regime change would also include some real substantive policy changes to follow.
In his final post as a Washington […]
No Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 44 by eric
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Beneath the Debris
If you have been wondering about the relative quiet over here at Grave Error, well, there is an explanation.
We are beneath the debris.
1 Comment » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Where are all the Violent Muslims?
With so much unsubstantiated verbiage over the past decade – especially over the past few weeks – about Islam’s inherent incompatibility with world peace, one thing is almost always forgotten: not only has every major Muslim political and religious leader across the globe publicly denounced al Qaeda (an organization whose leaders lack any formal religious […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Essays by eric
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
My Spanish Decade
On September 8, 2000, I left Washington, DC and arrived in Madrid, Spain on the following morning. For the next five years or so, I would negotiate with myself, “one more year, one more”, and then later Madrid or Paris, until the next thing I knew, I had already spent an entire decade – all […]
No Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Friends / Family, Living la vida española by eric
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Halloween in the Basque Country
As I wrote a few years ago during a similar circumstance, there cannot possibly be anything as low budget, juvenile, and downright silly than these guys from ETA. It looks like someone let the elementary school kids make their own Halloween costumes and put on their own play this year.
When watching the news on Spanish […]
