In the latest dispatch of <b>Portnoy’s Stammtisch</b>, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy muses on how the current global financial crisis has brought Germany’s leftist populist Oskar Lafontaine and America’s cowboy capitalist George W. Bush together.
In the second dispatch of The Local's new column about life in Germany, <b>Portnoy</b> blames Team Telekom for spoiling his love for cycling's top event, the Tour de France.
<b> Welcome to Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s new column pondering life in Germany. In his first dispatch, Portnoy opines on US President George Bush’s last visit to the Fatherland.</b>
