Santa Fe It is something less of a pleasure to see ACORN front and center in the current scandal de jure of the Bush Administration. Turns out that sometimes when it seems that “they” are really “out to get you,” that in fact they are really out to get you! In this case it now …
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Good Company
Berlin Two of the meetings I had while riding the rails between the Netherlands and Germany were actually fun and involved good conversation and even some good food on a trip marked by a lot of baguettes in — where else? — train stations. One evening on my wild day in Berlin I had a …
Ship’s Hold
Rostock, Germany Left den Haag, took my last sleeper out of Brussels near midnight, dropped my gear in the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and caught another train to Rostock. This was a different platform experience than usual. For example, there were a lot of very large police! There had been problems over the weekend in Rostock in …