bridge's blog

Lets talk European Affairs: Politics, Zeitgeist, US Relations, Culture ... anything from A to Z ... including the pics from your European vacation (calling Harold ;-)

....what do the Europeans think about the US Missile Defense Shield?

...what happened during the EU Summit Crisis and the Compromise at Dawn?

Is Cute Knut still cute?

Is Stauffenberg's son happy with Tom Cruise's film?

Is the Berliner Luft really that special and does Paris sizzle in the summer? I happen to think so but what do you think?

Lets talk Europe.

Achtung! Fertig! Los! :)

http://johnedwards.com/splash/

:)

Vince Gill - Look At Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2wPVVjFv4w
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Look At Us
(Vince Gill, Max D. Barnes)

[Chorus:]
Look at us
After all these yars together
Look at us
After all that we've been through
Look at us
Still leaning on each other

If you want to see
How true love should be
Then just look at us

Look at you
Still pretty as a picture
Look at me
Still crazy over you
Look at us
Still believin' in forever

[Chorus]

In a hundred years from now
I know without a doubt
They'll all look back and wonder how
We made it all work out

Chances are
We'll go down in history
When they want to see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us

Dolly Parton - Eagle When She Flies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWynkMaVno

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Harry Shearer:

We've been treated in the last week or so to a couple of eerily similar episodes of media behavior, although they'd seem on the surface to be from, at least, different asteroids: the Paris Hilton feeding frenzy and the coverage of the early Presidential campaigns. In the case of Hilton-mania, some of the very reporters and anchors covering the story were engaging simultaneously in what the political reporters only do after the election is safely over: publicly bemoan the job they were doing. Everybody saw at least one anchor or reporter act sardonically superior to the very Hilton story they were spending hours on. Meanwhile, the political media were covering the debates the very same way they criticized themselves for covering the last Presidential race, and the one before that: attention to image and horse race, with no attention to substance. Paul Krugman made the latter case in a New York Times op-ed last week, bemoaning the lack of after the fact fact-checking by the media following any of the debates. But what ties the two behaviors together, I think, is that they both reflect the way addicts act: sometimes they regret their behavior after the fact, sometimes even in the middle of the behavior, but it doesn't change the behavior. We should know by now that, as abashed as TV's Hilton-maniacs would like to seem, as embarrassed as political reporters are, at after-election seminars, by the superficiality of their coverage, the behavior doesn't change. This is your brain on news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoehLcyol3E

;-)