[Vince Ferrer]

In a photograph from his student days Tsipras sits on a hill, shoulder-length hair blowing forward over his face, and laughs into the camera with the unshakeable optimism of a young man who is firmly convinced that the world is just waiting to be saved by him.

They're screwed.

[Brilliant]

If the Greeks want communism, now might be as good a time as any. This guy will cure them of their yearning.

[pallis]

Let the Greeks have Plato’s Republic for awhile, and see how they like it.

[olezip]

Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies.

Why are we calling common sense living within our means "austerity?" Having a balanced budget is nonsense to those with disordered minds and unbalanced Utopian ideas of a perfect society.