Mediterranean Views

I have stayed on the fringes of this weeks pervasive coverage of the Boston explosion and subsequent manhunt with corresponding lockdown, and I have spoken very little about it to my Spanish husband, both non Spanish and Spanish friends here in Spain...

I used to be a reader, I mean a real reader, one that started a book, finished it, and could discuss it, whether it was good or not, why I found it so, even if I didn´t like it talk about some redeeming quality, or if I did like reveal some of its not...

This is no longer a crisis, this is the new reality.
I heard this line the other day and I have been thinking about it ever since. It is exactly true. Despite the fact that the talking heads - economists, journalists, politicians, political and social analysts - continue to talk about the crisis and how...