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My fingers wrote initially "NiculSecu", but that's rather unfair, as I don't have any knowledge or proof of his association with the Securitate or even SRI (the Romanian secret services). And I'm glad that we finally have a prime minister, really: I do wish him best of luck! But why did it take so long and what do the chattering classes say?

I recently overheard Calin Georgescu quoting an old proverb that was also spelled out in Lorax, and although he doesn’t quite disclose his sources, it’s worthy of a discussion.

I woke up to a homeless person in the staircase, so I started looking into this phenomenon as it appears in Bucharest.

I want to help Cola addicts with a translation of an anti-commercial, and I also look at a poor translation of the “new Rasputins” article.

Not long ago, a controversy that’s still somewhat alive erupted over Olympic swimming champion David Popovici decision to “live the dream” and buy himself a Porsche Spyder. While I have no right to criticize him, I summarize a few opinions in the mass-media and add my own.

I document a few recent abuses of Google censorship on this blog and provide context as discussed on other blogs and publications, with the intent to discuss it in depth later and elsewhere.

Over many years, I managed to curb my “somebody is wrong on the Internet” enthusiasm. However, the idiocy of envying / judging the Roma and homeless people who help with recyclable collection proved too much.

Recently, I found myself contemplating the worst case scenario for the Ukraine war so far: Putin calls partial mobilization and formally annexes his Ukrainian conquests, having “clarified” the use of nuclear weapons.

Babardeala cu bucluc / Loony Porn is a movie meant to shock the viewer into understanding that there are far worse ethical lapses that we accept on a daily basis than the porn between married people and other NSFW material we generally consider below us. We discuss the movie in detail so a spoiler alert is necessary, and if you plan to watch it (you might as well), make sure you have the subtitles on for part II at least.

A recent loss in court of a serious academic who may have produced some important, original research, contrasts dramatically with an astonishing win of a less important plagiarizer, whose scientific contributions are null / #zerobarat.