He drew ascerbic renderings of a muddled, luminescent two-headed lamb in a self-debate of concern that the future of nuclear energy not be harmed because of freakish accidents.
Asked what he thought about the leadership of President Bush, Mr. Fulop smiled broadly, but after an interesting moment of self-debate -- and with the help of some dramatic, across-the-throat "cut" signs by a couple of campaign aides sitting in on the conversation -- he restrained himself.
Up next is the self-created and self-destructive debate about whether America should pay its debts, or instead hold the global economy hostage to extract some spending cuts out of the government.
Tunisian society is now a shell of its former self; political debate is relegated to a whisper under the gaze of the omnipresent secret police.
Aberconwy MP Guto Bebb called it a "self indulgent debate" and an excuse to have "an attack on government".
The European Forum for New Ideas (where I also had been invited to speak), held concurrently in the nearby seaside resort town of Sopot bore witness to that success with over 900 business delegates from Poland joining in a well-earned festival of self congratulatory debate.
How do we escape from this depressing self-referential debate?
There is always a controversy, in that sense, because science is an organized controversy, a self-correcting debate.
But it is time for the UK to have a serious and un-self-deceiving debate about our relations with the EU.
This is largely overlooked during the self-employment debate, where economists and trade bodies focus on profitability and economic input rather than quality of life, passion and ingenuity.
Clever, intriguing, incoherent, All That I Am is cinematographic pseudo-realism, a studiously researched fantasy about the past that stages an almost self-annihilating debate about reconstruction.
