European Tour 2017: somewhere in West Athens

A practical lesson in the benefits of camouflage.

European Tour 2017: Syntagma

Refugees in Greece are on a hunger strike to be reuinited with their families in Germany, after months of waiting in immigration limbo. International bureacracy might finish what the Mediterranean started.

European Tour 2017: Exarchia

Friday night was a long one. Accidentally got stuck in the famous "anarchist district" while every way out was cut off by riots and tear gas. But this one image, of a solo anarchist attacking a traffic light with his back to the action, has really stuck with me. I...just don't get it.

New High Score

The Democratic Socialists of America just taught mainstream Democrats a harsh lesson on what real progressive populism looks like. Nicely done!

European Tour 2017: Belfast

I'll be talking politics with another foreigner, the Northern Ireland border issue will come up, and their eyes will pop open as they suddenly shout "OH SHIT, I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT!" This has happened so many times I've literally lost count.

European Tour 2017: Barcelona

Carles Puidemont starts a rebellion, the government responds by (shockingly) charging him with rebellion, and he enacts his master plan of running away to Belgium. A brief and anticlimactic homage to Catalonia.