Before I start posting about Turkistan again, i have to send a big atta-girl! to Hillary for her concession speech yesterday. Because CNN is the one English language channel here in Istanbul, I was able to watch her delivery and performance, and i think the Dems are going to be all right. She was passionate, she adopted his “Yes We Can” slogan, and she really did urge her supporters to get behind the Big O. All in all, i stand by my vote to put her in a position of authority, but not as the Veep.

Anyways, enough “Amrican” – i am in Turkistan, and about Turkistan I will write. I just wanted it to be known that the first Efesus of Saturday, in an old tradition that says you raise a glass to the defeated – was dedicated to Hillary – who gave a speech good enough to make me like her for the first time in about 18 years.