Vienna
I am in Vienna in preparation for my honeymoon/tour of the Balkans. One of the great small things about Europe at this time of the year is the relative absence of cloying, kitschy Christmas music.
My German is so bad as to be functionally non-existent, but on the plane I noticed someone reading a newspaper with a large photograph of Richard Perle, gesturing in an attempt at profundity. The headline quoted him as saying "Es war eine gute Idee." For those of you who don't know German, this translates roughly as "Richard Perle is a fucking idiot."