Stopped in downstairs for a quick peek at the recent Weekly Readers. Perplexing piece in the LRB on the Romanian election fiasco that I tried manfully to avoid wisearcing about when I was in Bucharest/Sibiu/Cluj last year. Utterly frustrating reading. It doesn't suss out what the locals were actually thinking, and it doesn't offer any insight into the event from a dispassionate outsider -- not to be too much of an anti/fink type, but it just seemed as if the author was trying to seem to be urbane enough to be capable of actual commentary, but without offering any actual understanding. Macarons with the LSE types in Sector 2, and coffee with a Roma single parent from Sector 4/5, and let the comfortable readers savor the atmosphere.
