Musings on Blawg Review/Blawg Review Deutsch-amerikanisch

German law blogs can take part on October 6, which is apparently German-American Day. This is a day when Americans put on their Lederhosen and pretend they are in Munich, I believe. Any German blawgs that would like to be showcased and linked next Monday presumably have to have an entry written in English (?). They can submit this by Saturday October 4 but ideally even earlier. Blawg Review explains itself on its site. I am probably not the person to explain it. It is a kind of blog carnival. Here is an earlier Blawg Review, hosted on the New York Personal Injury Law Blog and based on the New York Marathon (with a link to the longest urinal in the world). Here is the gen on Blawg Review for German American Day. And here is the LawPundit blog where Blawg Review will appear, perhaps in a later time zone than CET. The host of Blawg Review in this case is Andis Kaulins, a Lithuanian-American-Canadian law graduate who has taught in Germany and used to have hundreds of blogs called '... Pundit' (pundit and musings being popular blog titles). I imagine one has to hope that Andis will showcase one's submission. You will note that LawPundit blog offers automatic translation into German, thus: Bavarian State Elections Point to Populist Turmoil in German Politics : Free Voters Coalition Comes out of Nowhere to Win 10% of the Bavarian Vote Bayerische Staatsoper Wahlen Point-to-Populistische Turbulenzen in der deutschen Politik: Freie Wähler Koalition kommt aus dem Nichts zu Win 10% der bayerischen Abstimmung The populist emergence of Sarah Palin of Alaska as the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party in America is not an isolated phenomenon of the USA. Die populistische Auftreten von Sarah Palin von Alaska als Vize-Präsidentschafts-Kandidat der Republikanischen Partei in Amerika ist kein isoliertes Phänomen der USA. This development might be a cause for concern in some circles because it could indicate that a considerable percentage of the voter population in Germany might be suffering from some of the same symptoms currently that historically led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and led to the rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi Party), which began in…