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So a Wiffle is nothing that we use in this corner of the woods! Around here nobody plays Wiffle ball, but we European are fond of other games. The Irish are a lot all of their own and some of my good friends originated in Ireland, but what puzzles me is that none of them [...]

These days my political activity has been in the background, or rather, I have been exercising the art of the invisible. Politics is an art. One of the more startling discoveries that I have made is that the most action does happen behind the scenes and within the political household that “the party” is.
Recently I [...]

It turns out that the last few weeks have gone over me while I seem to have been in an altered state of conscientiousness. Trouble is is that I am not quite sure on which side of that consciousness I have been, I have whined and moaned and pestered many around me about the details [...]

In Bern today.
I get a lot of unsolicited post from the city of Bern’s various administrative and cultural units. Some of it lands right straight into the waste basket and each time I regret the trees and all the energy that has gone into producing yet another wasted paper. Still, waste comes naturally to nature. [...]

This silly flu had me however on Saturday morning I woke up feeling much better, but not quite up to karate katas, nonetheless I showed up at the karate Dojo at the end of the training to help out with the cleaning…. However visiting people who just had brain surgery within the last two weeks is still out of the question according to my colleagues of the medical profession and thus my Sunday plans have just been redrawn.

Politics… the local variety

The honeymoon is over, there is work to do. I am at this point dealing with my own administrative breakdowns and my strong wish that it would be really easy to deal with this city. After all my bank has managed to make it possible for me to log-in to my account [...]

There is nothing that gets people more excited about politics than a good scandal. In Berne it has been my own party that in the past days has provided the script of scandal. This being a nice provincial little town, of course the scandal is not about sex, and this being Switzerland, it ain’t about [...]

Thanks to J S Zolliker, the man behind REALIDAD NOVELADA.
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In the last week or so in several of the off-line conversations that I have engaged in we have touched on the subject of life and death, how men start wars, and what is important in life. During this time an Aikido colleague had a serious road accident and is now in hospital in intensive [...]

Le mouton noir Christoph Blocher exclu du gouvernement! - Un swissroll
There is nothing like old news! Really, I mean it. Most news are forgotten before one blinks, even those considered by some to be “historical” are easily forgotten, so when three or four days after the event something is still rather present, one is well [...]

was wird aus dem stadtwanderer? - der neue bundeskanzler …, originally uploaded by stadtwanderer/randonneur_urbain.
I got a message from a friend of mine now in Sarajevo that something or other had happened today in the National Parliament. Oh! It is the 12th of December! The election of the new Federal Counselors was slated for [...]

The last time that I could not sleep because I did not want to sleep without writing down a few thoughts occurred a few months ago. At that time what was on my mind was very private and intimate, and then I wrote what there was to write, purged the buffer of my mind, and [...]