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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Riparliamone
For Italian speakers, here’s the wonderful Paola Cortellesi casting a wry glance (as they used to say) at the Italian situation, character, political opportunism, and so on. She’s interrupted by the appalling Serena Dandini, but I can’t do anything about … Continue reading
Sign language
Come on. Stop faffing around. Read this article. Then sign the petition.
Posted in human rights, islam, religion
1 Comment
Business
An amusing, if slightly chilling, story from today’s Guardian. The headline? Pilot restrained after ‘talking to God’ on flight to Heathrow. At first I thought the pilot was under the impression that God was actually on the plane with him, … Continue reading
Posted in politics, religion, revealed truth
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James on pontiff
In his LRB review of the first two volumes of Henry James’s collected letters (The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volumes I and II edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias,) Colm Toibin quotes from a letter James sent … Continue reading
Posted in henry james, politics, pope, power
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Abortion
An awful lot of men -old men, obese men, childless men, opinionated men – are talking about abortion in Italy right now. I don’t think it’s any of their business, and I don’t think it’s any of mine.
Posted in vatican
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Spelling
I was writing about Berlusconi in a private email (yes, I’m obsessed) and my Google spell-check didn’t recognise him. I clicked to see what alternatives I was offered and found, at the top of the list, wanderlust. So maybe it … Continue reading
Posted in berlusconi, language
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Arrogance
In an interesting article in today’s New York Times about whether the Amazon Kindle is likely or not to be a success (he thinks it is), Randall Stross says: Stephen P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, has nothing to … Continue reading
Posted in reading
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Ouch!
This was attached to a packet of cocktail umbrellas. Ouch! Ouch!
Posted in Uncategorized
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Knut goes nuts
There’s an arrestingly titled article in today’s Independent about Knut, the hand-reared polar bear cub in Berlin Zoo. It goes: Knut is a psychopath and will never mate, say experts. The article describes Knut’s antics: On a wet day last … Continue reading
Posted in pets
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Sei una merda
http://tv.repubblica.it/flashplayer/player_embed.swfIt doesn’t take that much Italian to understand what this nameless Italian senator (National Alliance, i.e. post-fascist) is shouting at another senator, a certain Dottor Cusumano who has just voted for the coalition to which his party belonged until, let’s … Continue reading
Posted in italy, politics
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