Tunisians were absorbed in the Tunisian National Football Team match against Zambia last night and so were bloggers.

Thus, central bankers were stuck trying to control a world economy shocked by random changes in the animal spirits of investors and traders.

Palestinians were so locked in their opposition to Zionism that they were unable to appreciate the Jews existential needs, just as they failed to appreciate the effects of indiscriminate acts of violence against Israeli civilians.

For example, the two parties are now engaged in tense negotiations to amend the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law to avert any repeat of the current confused circumstances surrounding the current recount.

Both the Bolsheviks and their opponents were involved in these falsifications, concealing, distorting, and concocting facts and circumstances, whether they referred to the real role of Stalin or Trotsky in the revolution or to the behavior of peasants and Cossacks.

Ever since the euro was first proposed, skeptics (mostly American) and believers (mostly European) have fiercely debated the economic preconditions for the single currency, its benefits for members, and its political feasibility.

We re so absorbed right now with the financial fracas going on that if we think about climate change, we think of regions heating up, sea levels rising, poor polar bears unable to find ice floes to rest on and so on.