Highlights of this fall – visiting our nephew in Valencia, habaneres and “burnt rum” at a neighborhood festival, Rachmaninov and Dvorak at the Palau de la Música, and an expat Thanksgiving with new friends. Life is good.

El president de la Societat Americana de Barcelona, el Sr. Víctor Horcasitas, explica els fonaments de l’anomenat ‘Tea Party’ en una entrevista a TV3. Encara que la seva perspectiva de republicà moderat reflecteixi en les seves paraules, aplaudeixo el seu coratge per sortir a la televisió nacional i donar una entrevista de vint minuts, en català, per explicar un dels fenòmens més estranys i inquietants en l’història recent dels Estats Units.

The president of the American Society in Barcelona, Mr. Víctor Horcasitas, explains the basics of Tea Party madness in an interview on Catalan television’s TV3. Although some of his explanation is colored by his own moderate Republican political views, I applaud his courage to go on national television and give a twenty-minute interview, in Catalan, to explain one of the most bizarre and troubling phenomena in recent United States history.

Watch video on TV3

Jon Steward and Stephen Colbert, two of my favorite fellow Americans, are calling all of us to action on October 30, 2010. Sadly, I will only be able to attend in spirit their dueling “Rally to Restore Sanity”/”March to Keep Fear Alive” events in Washington, DC. I hope that anyone who is able to attend in person will do so, and will score me some of the snarky merch the occasion is sure to generate.

The social media elves have created Facebook events for both rallies and a Twitter account @Rally4Sanity (it looks like Colbert will use his @StephenatHome account, already used for Report updates).

Video of the announcement